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English: Allegany State Park's Administration Building, as seen on a March 2016 evening. Situated on a hilltop with a resplendent view over Red House Lake, the Administration Building is one of the first purpose-built structured to be erected in the then-newly founded state park, and is unquestionably the most architecturally distinguished building in the park. With a restrained yet refined English Tudor design that's the work of Harvey Hudson in conjunction with state-employed architect Sullivan Jones, the building's exterior - with its varied composition of wood, slate, stucco, and stone - was intended to harmonize with the natural environment surrounding it. The main portion of the façade is centered around an elegant, semi-octagonal bay window topped with a crenellated parapet, with handsome half-timbering on the second floor and twin gables fronting a steeply-pitched hipped roof. Corridors, with quintets of pedimented dormers atop them, extend outward from either side toward the lateral pavilions. Built in 1927, the Administration Building is the largest in a cluster of roughly contemporaneous structures built on what would soon be the southwest shore of Red House Lake, which also includes a bathhouse, park police station, about a half-dozen residences for park staff, and a grouping of visitor cabins. In addition to serving as the park's administrative headquarters, the building also originally housed guest dormitories and a cafeteria, which were later removed to accommodate additional office space.