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English: Built in 1895-96, this Classical Revival-style mansion was designed by McKim, Mead and White for Charles Howard Williams, whom was on the board of several Buffalo banks and had extensive real estate holdings, and his wife, Emma Alice Jewett Williams. The house was inherited by their daughter, Jeannie Jewett Williams Pratt in 1909, upon the death of both parents, and was subsequently occupied by her and her husband, Frederick Lorenz Pratt, whose father was a prominent banker and industrialist. The couple hosted lavish parties in the house. Frederick died in 1922, with Emma living until 1949, but spending her latter years in poverty due to the family fortune being wiped away by the Great Depression. Emma Pratt lost the house in 1938, with the city seizing the property due to back taxes, with it sitting vacant until 1941, when it became home to the Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic Hall, which remained in the building until 1978. The house was then sold to Paul Snyder and became the headquarters of his Niagara Trading Corp, and was sold again in 2000 to become the home of LiRo Group, a construction and engineering firm. The house features a red roman flemish bond brick exterior with stone trim, quoins, decorative window headers, stone sills, belt coursing at the base of the third floor windows, six-over-six double-hung windows, a hipped roof, cornice with modillions and dentils, a two-story front portico with large ionic columns and a cornice with dentils, with a wrought iron railing on the roof, a front door with a transom and stone surround, brick chimneys with decorative stone trim caps, covered side porch with decorative railings and columns, and a porte-cochere and palladian window on the north facade. Behind the house is a large red brick carriage house with a hipped roof, complimentary to the main house but with a simpler facade and a rooftop cupola. The house presently serves as a commercial office building. The house is a contributing structure in the Delaware Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.