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English: The Crocker-LaTour House, 97 Linwood Avenue at Summer Street, Buffalo, New York, June 2020. This sprawling, two-and-a-half-story mansion of red brick and Medina sandstone sports a very unusual design in what could be described as a melding of the Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque styles: the asymmetry of the façade, the Palladian window on the north gable (at left), and the shingle siding that features on the south gable (right) all point to the former, while the rusticated façade on the lower floors and ubiquitous motif of round arches is where the latter manifests itself. Circa 1887 is the best guess for when the house was built; its first resident was Charlotte Crocker (1832-1900), the recent widow of Lemuel L. Crocker (1829-1885), a superintendent of the New York Central Railroad stockyards who later went on to become the founding president of the Buffalo Fertilizer Company (renamed after his death as Crocker Fertilizer & Chemical). By 1888, living in the house with Charlotte were her unmarried sister Elizabeth LaTour (1824-1907), as well as her brother Albert E. LaTour (1844-1917, a Civil War veteran turned executive of the Jetter Manufacturing Company, producer of files and rasps) and his wife Minerva (1854-1935), the latter of whom would continue residing in the main house until 1929 and would live out the remainder of her life in an apartment in the carriage house, which is now the Summer Street Cat Clinic. It's now been divided into apartments.