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English: The Lundy-Lansing-Seaman House, 232 Hoyt Street at West Delavan Avenue, Buffalo, New York, September 2021. An interesting example of the then-trending Queen Anne school of architecture heavily influenced by the up-and-coming Arts & Crafts Movement, the former style is characterized by the asymmetry of the façade, the stout, octagonal-roofed tower facing the corner of Hoyt and West Delavan, and the three-quarter-width front porch, while the latter is suggested by the widely overhanging eaves of the hipped roof which are supported by large brackets of carved wood. The house was built in 1896 and, in its initial years of existence, served as the residence and office of a series of physicians who came and went in relatively quick succession:

• First was Dr. Pemberton Lundy (1866-1934), the entirety of whose one-and-a-half-year stay in Buffalo was spent here. A native of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, Dr. Lundy had spent the majority of his medical career thus far in the nearby city of North Tonawanda, and returned there after his stint in Cuba, where he served first as an Army field surgeon during the Spanish-American War and then in a government-appointed position as health officer in Pinar del Río. Upon his return to North Tonawanda, he went on to prominence as the city's health commissioner and an eventual mayoral candidate.

• After Dr. Lundy's departure in 1898, both residence and medical office were taken over by Dr. Levinus A. Lansing (1862-1931), whose stay in the house was equally brief, but quite eventful: a scandal that was followed eagerly by the local press in 1900 ensued when he and a married housewife from a neighboring address both disappeared mysteriously from their homes, only to be found together several months later in Grand Rapids, Michigan where Dr. Lansing, under an assumed name, had taken a position as examining physician at an insurance agency.

• The first five years of the 20th century saw the house occupied by Albany-born homeopathic physician Dr. Clayton W. Seaman (1869-1919), a staffer at the Ingleside Home for unwed mothers.