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English: The John B. & John C. Winkler House, 36 North Parade Avenue, Buffalo, New York, November 2021. With a privileged location overlooking Martin Luther King, Jr. Park and the Buffalo Museum of Science, the Winkler House is a fine example of the Queen Anne school of residential architecture that prevailed around the turn of the century in upper-class neighborhoods throughout the U.S. Stylistic trademarks in evidence include an asymmetrical façade, amply proportioned front porch with Classical detailing (namely Ionic columns, a dentil row at the roofline, and spindle balustrades on the rails), a dormer piercing the hipped roof at the center of the façade with a prominent Palladian window, and - of course - a three-story, octagonal tower dominating the left corner of the façade, peaked by a proud finial. Though built in 1899 by contractor Adolph Bournique and advertised heavily in area newspapers as "the finest house of its size in Buffalo", the manse remained unoccupied until 1901, when it became the longtime home of the Winkler family, owners of F. X. Winkler's Sons, a grocery store on Seneca Street in the neighborhood now called Larkinville. Patriarch John B. (1857-1945) and son John C. Winkler (1890-1979) each lived in the house with their respective families until their deaths.