English: The Gerber-Bernhardt House, 862 Main Street, Buffalo, New York, December 2020. A textbook (and quite well-preserved) example of the French Second Empire-style architecture that was nearing the end of its heyday at the time of the house's construction (1880), the Gerber-Bernhardt House presents all the requisite features of the style: exterior walls in brick, abundant Classical detailing in the form of bracketed cornices atop both the roof and the upper story, dormer windows topped with broken pediments contrasting with keystone-adorned segmentally-arched ones below, and of course, a mansard roof. The decorative color patterns in the shingles on the roof and the finial-topped corner tower are particularly exuberant expressions of the aesthetic. The house was built for Charles Gerber (1818-1904), a native of Alsace who was a butcher by trade when he arrived in America as a young man, but who had taken up brewing by 1858: that was the year in which he partnered with John Weber to found what would eventually become the Empire Brewing Company (unrelated to the modern-day Syracuse-based craft brewery by that name). Gerber lived in the house until 1888, whereupon it was sold to John Christ Bernhardt (1838-1904), who in partnership with his brother Herman was a wholesale dealer in wines and liquors. John's son Christian inherited the house upon his father's death, and continued living there until his own death in 1953.