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English: Vietnamese Community Center of Buffalo, 128 Chenango Street, Buffalo, New York, May 2021. This two-story wood-frame vernacular-style building was erected in 1892 and was home for the first two decades of its existence to the C. F. Selman dry goods store, which at first sported a wide-ranging inventory of clothing and furnishings of diverse descriptions, but by the end of the first decade of the 20th century had some to specialize in shoes. Selman is recorded as having sold his business to the H. A. Meldrum Company by 1913, but continued to live on the property until shortly before his death in 1917. The building has had numerous tenants over the years, including the photographer's great-great-grandmother Alice Pritchard née Sites, who lived in one of the upstairs apartments as a widow with her unmarried eldest son Harry from roughly the early 1930s until her death in 1944, during most of which time the retail space was unoccupied. The Vietnamese Community Center of Buffalo - appropriately situated in a neighborhood now teeming with Southeast Asian immigrants - has called the building home since 2015.