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English: As seen in May 2020: Jami Masjid Buffalo, 1955 Genesee Street at Forman Street, Buffalo, New York, a building that began its existence as home of Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church. A work of the architectural firm of Dietel & Wade, its floor plan is unlike any that of any other Catholic church in Buffalo: it's a T-shaped multipurpose structure encompassing a rectory to the west, a school building to the east, and the worship space itself extending north-to-south between them. Aesthetically, its design bears multitudinous hallmarks of the Late Gothic Revival style; the façade is of polychromatic Ohio sandstone accented with Indiana limestone trim, and trios of lancet windows are found above and on both sides of the elaborately panelled, Gothic-arched main entrance. The steeply-gabled parapet roof crowning the façade is accompanied on its east side by a diminutive domed spire topped with a tall finial. Queen of Peace was founded in 1920 to serve a Polish-American community that, in the years immediately preceding, had migrated north from the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, where the bulk of Buffalo Poles had settled, to work in nearby railroad jobs. A small wood-frame church was constructed within a couple weeks of the church's founding, followed by a school building the next year; both were superseded in 1928 by the present building. The Queen of Peace parish was dissolved in 2007 in the wake of the Buffalo diocese's "Journey in Faith and Grace" parish consolidation program and was purchased by its current owners in 2009, who operate Jami Masjid, a mosque and Islamic community center, on the site today.

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Paul Goembel, developer: By the mid 1880s, the Walden/Bailey area no longer contained the open farmland it had just ten years previous. Paul Goembel, a German immigrant, arrived in Buffalo in the 1840s. Upon his arrival, he purchased a large tract of land west of the intersection of Genesee and Bailey from the Holland Land Company. From his home at Broadway and Spruce Street, he would travel to the country to tend his farm, providing animals for his slaughterhouse and meat market on Chippewa and Franklin Streets. In the 1880s, he cut Goembel Street through the center of his farm, opening the land for development.

Frederick Boehm, developer: Frederick Boehm arrived in Buffalo from Bavaria in the 1880s to work for Hersee and Company, manufacturers of fine furniture. While employed there, he acquired a tract of land near the intersection of Genesee and Bailey. Around 1900 he began to farm this land. After a successful growing season, the prices brought for produce plummeted, prompting him to convert his barn into a home. The following year, he built another home next to it and within. ten years had constructed over 400 homes in the area.

Bailey/Kensington South

Residential development of the southern portion of the Bailey/Kensington district had begun prior to the August, 1895 arrival of the trolley line to the corner of Bailey and Kensington. On land serving as a timber reserve for William Bailey, construction of homes had begun as early as 1893.

Bailey forest: Bailey Avenue, originally called Williamsville Road, functioned as a trail through the Bailey forest. As he began to haul lumber from the area, Bailey made improvements to the trail. Around 1890, high winds carried sparks from a fire on Jefferson Avenue to the area. The vast expanse of timber quickly ignited, denuding much of the forest. With the prospects of a livelihood based on lumber altered, Bailey turned to farming the land he owned in the area. Bounded by William and Dingens, Bailey Avenue and the city line, the New York Central Railroad later enveloped the farmlands for use as rail yards.