English: The Lafayette Flats, 115-135 Lafayette Avenue at Barton Street, Buffalo, New York, January 2021. Built in 1897 as the first element of dense residential development in what was then a sparsely settled section of Buffalo's Upper West Side that was beginning to urbanize thanks to the presence of the new Grant Street streetcar line, the 36-unit Lafayette Flats were designed by the architectural firm of E. P. Brink & Son in an eclectic Neoclassical style whose repeating forms give the impression of the sort of brownstone row houses seen in places like Brooklyn, albeit executed in the relatively less expensive material of brick. This design incorporates such interesting features as wide Syrian arches framing the multiple pairs of entrances, as well as three-story bay windows comprising Doric pilaster strips "supporting" engaged entablatures, with geometric designs in the friezes above crowned by a prominent modillion cornice. The clientele of the apartments, originally middle-class, had transitioned to working-class by the end of the 1930s, in concert with the demographics of the neighborhood as a whole, and in the present day its residents draw heavily from the Asian and African immigrant and refugee communities that have come to predominate in the Upper West Side. An arson fire in 2017 heavily damaged the building, but - thanks in no small part to the advocacy of the local preservationist movement - they have since been fully restored.