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English: The Curtiss-Hauenstein House, 309 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, August 2020. Designed by locally-based architect Edward Austin Kent, the house is a beautiful exemplification of the Shingle Style of architecture with the massive, sprawling roof gables seen on both the façade and the side elevation, the stout dodecagonal turret on the northwest corner of the building, and, of course, the wooden shingles that serve as siding. Notable also are the Doric portico that extends across the façade to the south of the tower, the deeply recessed window in the front gable framed by an ornamental balconet, and the elliptical window above. A physician, Alexander Main Curtiss (1856-1923) was born in Utica, graduated from Cornell Medical School in 1880, and launched a successful second career in business upon his arrival in Buffalo, serving variously as a director of the Third National Bank of Buffalo and as a trustee of the Fidelity Guaranty and Security Company. Curtiss lived in this house from its completion in 1888 until that of the house on West Ferry Street that also bears his name, now the local branch of Ronald McDonald House Children's Charities. Thereafter, it became the home of Oscar Hauenstein (1856-1916), owner of an eponymous linseed oil manufacturing company, who lived there until his death.