English: The Morgan-Almendinger House, 191 Hodge Avenue, Buffalo, New York, May 2021. A work of locally-based architect Charles Day Swan that exemplifies his favored Queen Anne style, the design of the house has been considerably altered in intervening years but does include some original elements: the Craftsman-influenced detailing in the partial-width second-floor balcony, for instance, and the dentil row crowning the semi-enclosed front porch. Built as the home of Willis K. Morgan (1856-1918), a furniture and dry goods merchant with the firm of D. E. Morgan & Son which for many years was located at the southwest corner of Main & Huron, the house passed five years into the hands of Gue C. Hardesty (1860-1895), a real estate investor and banker who was forced to sell the place only a couple years later after bad investments compromised his financial situation (he ultimately died by suicide a few years later for related reasons). However, by far the longest-tenured owner of 191 Hodge was Charles O. Almendinger (1879-1921), a restaurateur and dealer in exotic tropical fruits who later took on a second career in the automobile industry as a dealer and distributor of Hupmobile, Peerless, and Chevrolet vehicles. Almendinger bought the house in 1892 and continued living there through 1912.