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English: The Dr. Bernard Bartow House, 481 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York, March 2022. One of the so-called "Midway Row Houses" on Delaware Avenue in the NRHP-listed Allentown Historic District, the elegant design features seen here are the product of two distinct phases of the house's history. The structure itself dates to 1894 and was designed by the firm of Marling & Johnson in a rather conservative iteration of the Colonial Revival style that's most notable for its somewhat anachronistic inclusion of a slate-tiled mansard roof. The dormers piercing the mansard are topped with exquisite broken pediments, but otherwise the original portion of the design is a staid affair with a symmetrical red brick façade, cut-stone lintels and sills adorning the windows, and round-arched and keystone-studded twin entrances on the ground floor. Dr. Bernard Bartow (1849-1920) was among the most respected members of Buffalo's medical community, an orthopedic surgeon whose specialty in pediatrics led him to become one of the founders of what's now known as John R. Oishei Children's Hospital. He lived and practiced in the house until 1914. Soon afterward, the building was converted for commercial use, and it was subsequent owner Frederick Pike - operator of an interior decorating studio "for particular and discriminating people" - who, in the late 1920s, was responsible for the second spate of features seen in this photo, namely the large multistory window centrally located on the façade and the bronze Art Nouveau ornamentation framing it, including elegant arches and columns and fanciful figures of winged animals and reclining nude figures. In more recent times, 481 Delaware has been better known as the home of a series of upscale restaurants: the venerable Lord Chumley's from the late 1970s through the mid-2000s, and The Stillwater and the Rowhouse Bakery for brief periods after that.