English: The Thomas A. Bissell House, 390 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, February 2022. One of the latter buildings to have been designed during the brief but breathtakingly prolific existence of the architectural partnership of Silsbee & Marling, this two-and-a-half-story residence dates to 1886 and, along with the John Kimberly House on Irving Place in Allentown, is one of a pair of homes commissioned of the firm by real estate investor E. B. Smith as a speculative venture. An example of the Shingle Style that displays a clear Queen Anne influence, the Bissell House's façadal asymmetry, sprawling cross-gabled roof, ponderous and bottom-heavy massing, and recessed half-width front porch are all typical of the aesthetic. But undoubtedly the most notable characteristic of the design is the widely varied composition of the exterior, which incorporates brick on the lower floor, a combination of fishscale and common lap shingles above, and - most unusually - a layer of stucco with pebble detailing at the peak of the left front gable, which frames and crowns a leaded-glass roundel window bedecked with an ornamental molding surround and keystone as well as elaborate scroll molding below. Greenfield, Ohio native Thomas Ashley Bissell (1835-1902) was one of Buffalo's most prominent industrialists of his day, and as general manager of the Wagner Palace Car Company was responsible for many ingenious innovations in the field of railroad sleeper cars. Bissell lived in the house until just a few weeks before his death, which occurred at a hospital in Canandaigua while being treated for a bout of pneumonia that proved fatal. His widow Cynthia remained in the house until 1919.