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Vul. Bohomoltsia, 11a – residential building

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The three-storied townhouse was built in 1905 under a project designed by architect Henryk Salwer for barber Herman Wallach. This is an example of the early Modernist residential townhouse of the first decade of the 20th century. It is designed in the Secession (Art Nouveau) style with some historicizing elements. Today it is used for dwelling purposes.

History

The building’s plot was formed in 1904, when Bohomoltsia (then Adama Asnyka) street was laid and the area, where an old villa and gardens had been located (its old address was Pańska street 5 or conscription number 508 4/4), was parcelled for housing development. The plot was owned by Klementyna Witosławska, née Bochdan.

The plot of the house number 11a was bought by barber Herman Wallach; later it was given a new conscription number 903 4/4. The project of the townhouse was designed by architect Henryk Salwer, the building permit was granted by the Magistrate in January of 1905 (DALO 2/1/129: 1). In 1906 additional drafts made by architect Salomon Riemer were approved. In September of that year the construction was completed, the owner was granted permission to move into the building.

Today the building is used only for dwelling purposes.

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Architecture

The house is located at the corner of the square in the middle of Bohomoltsia street. This is a residential townhouse typical of the early 20th century. It is built with the use of modern materials and constructions and with the connection to the water supply, sanitation and electricity networks. All utility rooms are located inside the apartments with their windows overlooking the courtyard while living rooms overlook the street. Mainly Historicist elements, stylized in the spirit of the ornamental Secession, were used in the decorative solution of the building.

The corner three-storied townhouse is built of brick and plastered. Presumably, like all the other houses in the street, it has Klein vaults in the basements, a metal beam bridging between the floors and a wooden attic floor. The double-pitch roof has a structure of rafters and posts and is covered with painted tin; there are several lucarnes in it.

The building is L-shaped in plan and, similarly to all corner houses on the street, it has a cut corner. It forms a common courtyard with the house number 15. The main portal is located in the south façade. Communication between the floors functions by means of two-flight stairs. The house can be entered from the courtyard by back winding stairs leading to small galleries and giving access to kitchens and service toilets. According to the original plan, there were two apartments on each floor: a five-room one and a four-room one. Unlike most houses on Bohomoltsia street, no premises for servants were planned in the house number 11a. Kitchens, bathrooms, and toilets are located inside the apartments and have windows overlooking the courtyard or have no natural lighting at all.

The house’s layout is dominated by its three-edged corner, crowned by an attic. The main façade is almost symmetrical but for the entry portal which is shifted aside. The ground floor surface is decorated with banded rustication, with a few more protruding quadras at the corners (at the corner edges and pilaster sides on the main façade). All windows are rectangular. The ground floor windows have trimmings stylized as Neo-Baroque ones. On the upper floors, the façades are divided by stylized pilasters decorated with Secession garlands at the top and with branches of plants at the bottom. The windows have stylized pediments. The façades are crowned by a cornice with denticles.

In general, the building has changed little, apart from some alterations. A ground floor corner window has been arranged, most of the window woodwork has been replaced, the staircase walls have been painted, and so on.

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Personalities

A. M. Petrov – a resident of the house in 1946
Adam Kurtz – a physician, resident of the house in 1932
Henryk Salwer – architect who designed the building
Herman Wallach – a hairdresser, co-owner of the house
Edmund Biernacki – associate professor at Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, a physician who specialized in internal illnesses, worked in Karlsbad during summers, a member of general medical doctors' lections, resident of the house
Z. Stawiecka – an obstretrician, resident of the house in 1910
Karol Schneider – a dentist, resident of the house in at least 1910-1914
Klementyna Witosławska née Bochdan – owner of the building plot
Leon Winig – a traveler, resident of the house in 1913
Luiza Jonas – an engineer's wife, resident of the house in 1913
Michał Birnbaum – a merchant, resident of the house in 1910
Michał Milewski – a hairdresser, resident of the house in 1910
Netti Wallach – co-owner of the house
Aleksander Barański – an office assistant, resident of the house in 1913
Salomon Riemer – architect who designed auxiliary plans of the building
Solomon Reiss, dr – resident of the house in 1910
Stanisław Stepkowicz – a furrier/ skinner, resident of the house in 1914
F. Yu. Tokar – resident of the house in 1946

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Sources

  1. State Archive of Lviv Oblast (DALO) 2/1/132:1.
  2. Informator lwowski, 1932.
  3. Ksiega adresowa krolewskiego stolecznego miasta Lwowa, 1914.
  4. Lewicki Jakub, Między tradycją a nowoczesnością: Architektura Lwowa lat 1893–1918 (Warsaw: Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zabytkami, Wydawnictwo Neriton, 2005), 258-262.
  5. Skorowidz krolewskiego stolecznego miasta Lwowa (Lemberg, 1910).
  6. Skorowidz krolewskiego stolecznego miasta Lwowa (Lwow, 1920).
  7. Wiczkowski J., Lwów, jego rozwój i stan kulturalny oraz przewodnik po mieście, 1907.
  8. Wykaz domów na obszarze miasta Lwowa, Księga adresowa Małopołski (Lwów, Stanisławów, Tarnopól, Rocznik 1935/1936), 2.


Material compiled by Iryna KotlobulatovaKhrystyna KharchukOlha Zarechnyuk