William Dorsheimer HouseH. H. Richardson
Exterior · Buffalo, United States
Photo: Andre Carrotflower · 2015-04 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 1481×1481
A nighttime view of the William Dorsheimer House at 434 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York, as seen in April 2015. Though the Dorsheimer House is one of the most pre-eminent examples of the French Second Empire style in the city, its designer - Henry Hobson Richardson - later went down in architectural history as the namesake pioneer of the Richardsonian Romanesque style. A handsome two-and-a-half-story brick building dating to 1868, the Dorsheimer House's slate mansard roof slopes straight downward to the bracketed cornice at its base and is perforated by three pedimented dormers on each of