English: The Sandrock-Newton House, 272 Virginia Street at West Avenue, Buffalo, New York, June 2021. Built in 1866, this is a good representative example of the Italianate architecture that's common on the Lower West Side of Buffalo and other residential (and once-residential) neighborhoods near downtown. The fairly shallow pitch of the roof, the arched windows with prominent window heads and sills, and (especially) the decorative brackets supporting the projecting roof eaves all typify the style well. The left-side addition to the house was built in the early 1890s and, if anything, is an even better example of the Italianate, with segmental arches over the windows instead of semicircular ones. The house was built in 1866 for George Sandrock (1838-1902), the son of Alsatian immigrants who started out as a dockworker at the grain trading firm of O. T. Nims and, during the three years he lived here, was only just beginning his meteoric ascent into the upper echelons of Buffalo's business and political world. After moving out, Sandrock would become president of the German-American Bank and serve on the board of the Union Insurance Company and the Buffalo Street Railway Company, as well as win elections to the Common Council and the Grade Crossing Commission (he was a longtime Democrat, but broke with the party late in life and supported William McKinley for President in 1900 due to his distate for the free-silver policy of Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan). In 1870, the Newton family moved in: widowed mother Sylvia (1822-1904) and her oldest son Frederick (1847-c. 1909, a sailor by occupation) moved out in 1873, but her younger son Edward (1854-1942) stayed until 1884. It's now vacant and owned by Hispanics United of Buffalo, whose Hispanics United of Buffalo|headquarters is located next door in the former Free Methodist Church and who, at the time the photo was taken, reportedly planned to demolish the house to make way for a parking lot to replace the one that was once across the street, where the La Plaza senior housing complex was then under construction.