English: The Griffin-Crocker-Horton House, 268 Jersey Street, Buffalo, New York, June 2015. The exquisite architecture of this two-and-a-half-story manse serves as an excellent real-time demonstration of the metamorphosis of Gothic Revival residential architecture into the Queen Anne style that was ongoing at the time of its construction (1883): the prominent vertical orientation and steeply pointed gables and windows of the dormers attest to the former, while the latter is exemplified by the central tower that dominates the façade, with its octagonal tent roof whose projecting eaves are supported with ornate brackets, and also the asymmetrical front porch whose Classical detailing includes pairs and trios of Doric pilasters. The house was built in 1883 by contractor Peter J. Schifferens (1831-1919), who intended it as his own residence, but evidently changed his mind before the house was complete: in an August 1883 Buffalo Evening News classified ad wherein he offered it up for sale, he described it as "an elegant new house... built by day's work... an honest job throughout so far as work is concerned. The material used was selected lumber, not a single cull in the whole building. It is a model house, has every convenience, from a Boynton furnace in the cellar up to a hard finish in the tower... right in the heart of the fastest growing section of Buffalo". The eventual buyer was John B. Griffin (1828-1886), president of the Queen City Milling Company, but less than a year later he sold it onward to the newly appointed New York Central stockyards superintendent Leonard Crocker (1854-1901). 268 Jersey's much-longer-tenured third owner was Colonel Joseph H. Horton (1842-1916), the "general northern and western sales agent" for the Lehigh Valley Coal Company who bought the place from Crocker in 1886 and moved out in 1893. A year after this photo was taken, the house would come under the auspices of the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the Fargo Estate Historic District.