English: The Pascal Franchot House, 53 Tudor Place, Buffalo, New York, April 2021. A late-period, rather modestly-scaled example of French Renaissance Revival architecture, the Franchot House sports a slate-tiled mansard roof whose pitch serves as a fine illustration of one of the key differences between the Renaissance and Second Empire aesthetics: it's steep, but not too steep. The eaves are bedecked with dentil courses and fronted by a parapet that's perforated by decorative spindle balustrades, while on the first floor windows come topped with blind arches whose tympana are ornamented with swag reliefs (and, on the north side elevation, are interspersed by smaller four-light oval windows). Most windows also sport decorative wrought-iron balconets. Among the last parcels to be developed in the Elmwood East Historic District, Tudor Place was laid out in 1922 on what was once the grounds of the expansive John J. Albright Estate. 53 Tudor was one of the first houses on the block, built in 1923 for Charles Pascal Franchot (1886-1953), an Olean-born, Harvard- and Yale-educated corporate attorney who was employed by the firm of Kenefick, Cooke, Mitchell & Bass at the time he lived in the house. After his 1932 move to New York City, he went on to further prominence as an industrialist, with executive positions in firms as diverse as Checkmaster Systems, De Lisser Machine & Tool, James Petroleum, and the Sonotone Corporation.