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English: As seen on a sunny April 2022 afternoon, the condominium complex at 900 Delaware Avenue (corner Bryant Street) in Buffalo, New York is a typical example of the large multifamily apartment dwellings that, in the era of its construction (1916), were gradually replacing the elegant single-family homes on the city's so-called "Millionaires' Row". Though generally utilitarian in design, the keen eye can distinguish subtle Classical tropes especially around the main entrance (unfortunately partially obscured here behind an NFTA bus shelter), on which a pair of Doric columns support a corniced entablature engraved with Greek-style triglyphs. Notable also are the monumental four-story enclosed bays on the façade, flanked by brick pilaster strips. Originally three stories in height, the building first served as apartments before being purchased by the Presbyterian Church in 1958 for use as an old-age home. It was the Presbyterians who, in 1969, added the upper two floors to accommodate additional patients in need of nursing care, as well as the concrete buttresses on the side elevations which were necessary to support the excess weight. The building was converted to condominiums in the mid-1980s.