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Last week when I posted about the Lumen Bearing Company, Greg Witul commented on the post asking where I got the old picture of the factory. I couldn’t remember exactly and then pulled out the book I thought it was from. It came from a 50th anniversary book for Saint Stanislaus Church.
While flipping through the book, a photo of 897 Broadway caught my eye. I scanned the photo tonight and pulled some pictures from Google Maps of what is there now. When I started looking at the photos, I noticed right away that the original building is still there. It is hidden behind what was built out of it.
If you examine the pictures closely, you can see it. You will also notice that part of the building’s white facade is still visible. I don’t know how much else of it remains, but it was cool to make this discovery.
The 1923 photo shows the Broadway Bakery. Truly a great looking building.
UPDATE from Andy Golebiowski in comments:
Description from the Intensive Level Historic Resources Survey:
Broadway Bakery
897 [881] BroadwayDate: 1914
Architect:
Władysław H. Zawadzki,
Original Use: Commercial
Current Use: VacantNR Criterion: C
Built as a bakery, store, and
dwelling for Władysław
Niebieszczanski. Its original
richly executed Broadway
façade, of brick and white terra
cotta with copper bays, was
largely effaced when the former
bakery was joined to a
nondescript, late twentieth
century building to the west.
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Description from the Intensive Level Historic Resources Survey:
Broadway Bakery
897 [881] Broadway
Date: 1914
Architect:
Władysław H. Zawadzki,
Original Use: Commercial
Current Use: Vacant
NR Criterion: C
Built as a bakery, store, and
dwelling for Władysław
Niebieszczanski. Its original
richly executed Broadway
façade, of brick and white terra
cotta with copper bays, was
largely effaced when the former
bakery was joined to a
nondescript, late twentieth
century building to the west.
How sad but what beautiful stained glass windows. Must’ve been a great time to live among such great architecture!
Chris,
You have such an eye for this kinda thing. I never notice things like that.
Was Ruda’s records located in this building?
Ruda’s was to the left of this building across the street.
There was a bakery on Broadway 897 that belonged to Andrew Kozlowski in 1900. Andrew Kozlowski belonged to my family in Poland.
Na Brodway 897 była piekarnia należaca do Andrew Kozlowski w roku 1900. Andrew Kozlowski to moja rodzina. Piotr z Poland
You can check in 1900 but the bakery belonged to him much earlier. andre had a lot of family in America. The first Kozłowski was already in 1850 in America. He was a soldier fought for the independence of Poland
This page has the Buffalo Street Directory from 1900 yare.
https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/VHB011/search/searchterm/borkowski
Piotr from Poland