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English: The Risman-Munschauer House, 3 Chapin Parkway at Gates Circle, Buffalo, New York, January 2023. Built in 1924, this is one of the relatively few private residential commissions of locally-based architect Louis Greenstein. With its side-gabled roof, scrupulously symmetrical façade, small-paned sash windows, and copious Classical detailing (note the portico at the entrance with its broken pediment and Doric pilasters and columns, the triglyphs and metopes adorning the entablature at the roofline, and the medallion relief adorning the semicircular pediment crowning the projecting entrance pavilion on the second floor), it's a textbook example of the Georgian Revival architectural style, yet it's also notable as an early example of the placement of brick veneer over a wood frame, a soon-to-be-ubiquitous technique that affords an upscale appearance on the cheap. The house was built for and initially owned by Harold R. Risman (1901-1987), a newly married, ambitious young real estate magnate-in-the-making who was just getting started in the employ of his father Sam, with interests locally as well as in Florida. Risman lived in the house with his wife Doris for two years before abruptly departing from both the real estate business and Buffalo itself - after moving to New Jersey and setting himself up as a stationery salesman, he sold the house to business executive Frederick E. Munschauer (1885-1955), the treasurer and later president and general manager of the Niagara Machine & Tool Company, which had been co-founded by his father and was long headquartered on Northland Avenue. Munschauer bought the place in 1926 and continued living there with his wife Harriet until his death. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2016 as a contributing property to the Elmwood East Historic District.