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English: The Bayliss-Oishei House, 360 Depew Avenue at Beard Avenue, Buffalo, New York, May 2020. A paragon of the Tudor Revival style that was popular at the time, the house was built in 1935 from a design by architect Harvey Staring Horton, who began with an unusual cruciform design and then added an entrance framed by a compound Tudor arch and a handsome Gibbs surround, with a pointed-arched window above made from leaded glass. The two "wings" of the building flanking the entrance feature steep, half-timbered gables, large bay windows, and façades of brickwork in a basket-weave pattern. The son of a Civil War veteran, William H. Bayliss (1884-1951) got his start in the grocery business as travelling salesman for the wholesale concern of W. H. Granger & Company, then became president of the Fuller Canneries Company and the Tugwell-Wiseman Company (vegetable- and fruit-canning concerns), of the Bank of South Dayton, of the Erie Lumber Company, and business advisor to the Colonnade Company (owner of various Cleveland-area restaurants). The diversity of his business investments helped keep Bayliss afloat during the Great Depression, during which time, in fact, he had the house built. The house was purchased from the Bayliss estate by Robert Chittenden Oishei (1919-1999), son-in-law of William's wife Bessie, nephew of John Oishei, founder of the Trico Corporation, and himself founder of Fibron Products, a manufacturer of laminated wood products for the cutlery and hardware industries, specializing in knife handles. Oishei's widow continued living in the house until her death in 2009. The house remains privately owned.