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English: The Charles L. Bullymore House, 44 Vermont Street, Buffalo, New York, March 2022. Built c. 1892, this two-and-a-half-story wood-framed structure is the middle of a row of three houses in the NRHP-listed Prospect Hill Historic District to have been designed by local architect William Hart Boughton (indeed, to its left at the corner of Columbus Parkway stands Boughton's own former home and studio). A superlative example of the Queen Anne style of architecture that was enjoying its zenith at the time, with an exterior faced in wooden shingles in common with the Shingle Style, but a more vertical orientation and more overt Classical influence than its counterpart (note especially the spindle balustrades lining the perimeter of the front porch, and the unusual triple attic window framed by stylized Doric pilaster strips and a flat projecting cornice yet nonetheless crowned with a triple relieving arch etched into the shingle pattern. The corner tower that's requisite of the style is present not only in its fully-fledged form in the left, but is echoed atop the bay window at right, where a narrow sliver of single suggestive of a tent roof is appended to the exterior wall. The oculus window to its left, studded with a quartet of ornamental keystones, is the icing on the cake. 44 Vermont was the longtime home of Charles L. Bullymore (1859-1936), a local denizen with quite an interesting biography: sports editor of the Buffalo Courier as a young man, he returned to Buffalo after a brief period working as a surveyor in West Virginia and launched a second career as one of the city's most prominent attorneys, serving as senior partner in the firm of Bullymore, Reyburn & Griffin and founding president of the Lawyers Club of Buffalo. He lived in the house until his death.