English: The Schoellkopf-Vom Berge Manor, 121 Chapin Parkway, Buffalo, New York, April 2020. A palatial residence in the Flemish Renaissance style designed by the firm of Esenwein & Johnson, this sumptuous residence features very prominent Gibbs surrounds and quoins that frame each window and line the corners of the twin chimneys, their gray stone providing a striking contrast to the brown brick of the façade. You'll also see foliated corbels at the base of each chimney, and a lovely second-story balcony with wrought-iron rails in trefoil and quatrefoil patterns that overlooks Chapin Parkway and overhangs a small but handsome patio. Genevieve Vom Berge née Schoellkopf (1884-1919) was born into one of Buffalo's most prominent aristocratic families (her grandfather, Jacob Schoellkopf, made his fortune as a tanner and then got even richer as the first investor to bet on the hydroelectric potential of Niagara Falls); in 1907, she married Henry Vom Berge, an employee at one of her family's businesses, but by the time this house was completed, she had been widowed and left to raise her young son, Henry Jr., alone. She herself died only a few years later. Subsequent owners include James McNulty (1873-1926), president of the Pratt & Lambert paint company, whose widow continued living there for thirty years after his death, and Dr. Leslie Backus (1902-1963), a plastic surgeon of international renown.