English: The Jacob Hasselbeck House, 541 Walden Avenue at St. Joseph Street, Buffalo, New York, January 2021. Unfortunately, this unusually proportioned house dating from 1884 has been stripped of much of its once-breathtaking early Queen Anne stylistic detail: gone are the exuberant Eastlake-influenced woodwork that once adorned the wraparound porch; the Classical detailing framing the second-story bay window; the handsome ridge crests adorning the roof. But other elements remain intact, such as the handsome if awkwardly oversized pair of corbels that support the projecting frontal gable, and the sunburst motifs that figure on the face of that gable, as well as above the dormer at left and on the pediments above the twin porch entrances. At the time this house was built for him on what was then the far outer edge of Buffalo's urbanized area, Jacob Hasselbeck (1847-1924) was the owner of a planing mill and lumber yard that was situated on Jefferson Avenue at what later would be the site of his brother Martin's Hasselbeck Cheese Company. Later, he went on to serve in various posts in the municipal government, such as 6th Ward Alderman and Parks Commissioner, and to found and lead the first volunteer fire company in the neighboring suburb of Cheektowaga.