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English: The Stella Lowry House, 497 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York, April 2022. With its prominent arched entrance, horizontal layering, florid Neoclassical ornamentation (notice the fret design on the belt course above the ground floor, the brick Corinthian pilaster strips framing the upper-story windows, and the prominent dentil row and cornice with block modillions at the roofline), and what architectural commentator Chuck LaChiusa describes as "an intricate weaving of linear and geometric forms with stylized foliage in a symmetrical pattern", the Lowry House is a rare example of Sullivanesque architecture - a style that, while popular in its day, was inextricably linked with the innovation of tall office buildings - adapted for use in a residential design. The house was designed in 1893 by local architect George Cary for Stella Smead Lowry (1838-1913), a local socialite and the widow of William H. Lowry of Jamestown, New York, whose promising career as a dry goods merchant and businessman was cut short when he was stricken with paralysis around 1870, a disease that plagued him until his death. Lowry lived in the house for the remainder of her life, after which time it was willed to her unmarried daughter, also named Stella, who continued living there until her own death in 1942.