English: The Dexter Rumsey Cottage, 148 Summer Street, Buffalo, New York, October 2020. A diminutive Italianate tucked away a good distance from the street behind a wrought-iron fence, the Rumsey Cottage's simple design places a trio of segmental-arched windows (the originals, six-over-six sash) onto a façade of painted brick, adorns them with handsome black shutters, and adds on a 1920s-era wood-frame east wing (left) where the main entrance is found. Beginning in 1856, most of the block bounded today by Delaware Avenue, Summer Street and North Street was part of the sprawling country estate of Aaron Rumsey (1797-1864), a Vermont-born tannery owner and real estate speculator who became patriarch of one of Buffalo's most prominent early families; only a few years later, he cleaved off the northern portion of his land to give to his son Dexter (1827-1906), whose yellow brick Gothic mansion stood on the southwest corner of Delaware and Summer at the current site of the United Way Building until its demolition in the 1950s. The house seen here dates to about 1870 and originally served as the garden cottage situated behind the younger Rumsey's house; it, like the gardens themselves, were designed by the Rose Brothers landscape architecture firm. The cottage is still in the possession of the Rumsey family (namely Theodore, Dexter's great-grandson).