English: The John and Lawrence Jaskiewicz House, 235 Ashley Street, Buffalo, New York, July 2021. This two-and-a-half-story dwelling sports a utilitarian design that's been heavily altered by modern renovations, yet is a fine representative example of the housing stock in this neighborhood, an eastern extension of the Polish enclave of Broadway-Fillmore that's sometimes identified as St. John Kanty, the name of the Roman Catholic church whose parish once comprised the neighborhood. Though there was a nominal Polish presence in earlier years consisting of about a dozen families on the Near East Side, the history of Buffalo's Polonia began in earnest in 1873, with the founding of the Church of St. Stanislaus, Bishop & Martyr by Polish-born real estate speculator Joseph Bork. Bork's explicit goal in donating the land to the Catholic diocese for the church and recruiting a Polish-speaking preacher, Rev. John Pitass, was to encourage the growth of an ethnic enclave in Buffalo, and his scheme was successful beyond his wildest dreams: by the time this house was built, Buffalo counted about 70,000 Polish citizens, about a sixth of the city's population, living in a swath of neighborhoods that extended clear across the East Side in a line roughly following Broadway. This house was built in 1909 - roughly the same time as the others on its block, but a decade or two later than neighboring blocks - for John Jaskiewicz (1881-1952), a young baker native to Mogilno who both lived and operated his bakery in the building. Jaskiewicz opened a second location on Clinton Street in 1915 and left the original to his younger brother Lawrence (1889-1938), who stayed another four years. Among the house's subsequent residents were the photographer's great-great-aunt, Stella Wargula (1922-1999; née Graczyk) and her husband Henry (1919-1966), who lived in the rear apartment from about 1943 through 1950 along with their children Dolores, Henrietta, and Florian.