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English: The Władysław Zawadzki House, 798 Fillmore Avenue, Buffalo, New York, November 2020. The house presents a phenomenon that was popular in the early 20th century in many Buffalo neighborhoods and especially in Broadway-Fillmore, in which you have a house (in this case, a relatively ordinary wood-frame cross-gabled Queen Anne-style residence with clapboard and shingle siding) on which was later appended a brick storefront (in this case, constructed in 1938 and sporting restrained Art Deco detailing including angular storefront windows and ornamental brickwork in rectangular patterns around, above, and below the second-story windows). The house is by far most notable as the home of Władysław Zawadzki (1872-1926), a native of Poznań, Poland who immigrated to the U.S. as a young man and worked briefly for the American Bridge Company and Lackawanna Steel before becoming a remarkably prolific architect responsible for many of the prominent buildings in the Broadway-Fillmore area and others of significance to the Polish-American community of Buffalo. However, this house was not a Zawadzki-designed building nor was he its original resident; it was built in 1897 for railroad conductor George L. Coleman (1864-1912). Commercial tenants located in the building after the construction of the storefront addition included the butcher shop of Stanislaus Paner and the photography studio of John K. Taffel.