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English: The Joseph Getz House, 829 North Forest Road, Amherst, New York, December 2021. A fine example of the Greek Revival-influenced vernacular farmhouse architecture that typified the American rural landscape at the time of its construction (c. early 1840s), the Getz House features a brick façade three bays in width, with handsome six-over-six sash windows topped with cut stone lintels. The front porch is a later addition, dating to the late 19th century, but nonetheless boasts some elegant scrollwork around the posts that support the hipped roof. One of the first homesteads to have been established in Amherst north of Main Street, this lot was purchased from the Holland Land Company in 1810, and twenty-three years later came under the ownership of Pennsylvania native Joseph Getz (1803-1852), who farmed the land and also operated a grist mill and sawmill across the road on the shore of Ellicott Creek. After his death, his sons Jacob and Franklin would go on to found the hamlet of Getzville several miles north of here.