Vul. Antonovycha, 80 – residential building

The villa on vul. Antonovycha 80 is part of the historical area of ​​Lviv. The modern vul. Antonovycha, its lower part, first appears on maps of Lviv in the late 18th century. It was then called Sadowa (ger. Gartengasse), renamed Sadownicka in 1871 and Zadwórzańska in 1927, in honor of the Zadwirya (pol. Zadwórze) railway station near which a battle took place between a detachment of Polish volunteers and the First Cavalry Army of Budyonny in August 1920. During the German occupation, the street was named Ludendorffstrasse, in honor of German General Erich Ludendorff; after the war, in 1944, its pre-war name in its Ukrainian version, Zadvirnianska, was restituted; in 1946 it was renamed Stalingradska in honor of the city of Stalingrad. In 1961, due to the renaming of Stalingrad to Volgograd, the street was renamed Volgogradska. In early 1983, on the eve of the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, vul. Volgogradska was renamed Stalingradskoi Bytvy. In 1992, the street was named in honor of Ukrainian historian and ethnographer Volodymyr Antonovych.

In 1900, ul. Sadownicka, which at the time ended at the intersection with ul. Szymonowiczów (today, vul. Melnyka), was extended westwards to ul. Kulparkowska (today, vul. Kulparkivska). This part of the territory was parcelled and built up mostly with manor houses.

In 1901, Maria Drozdowicz, the owner of several plots on ul. Sadownicka (numbers 2998, 2999, 3000), which had been separated from the plot with conscription number 151¼, built a small single-story house under a gable roof on one of them (orientational number 80). The project was designed by architect Michał Kustanowicz (DALO 2/2/4879:13). The house consisted of a small entryway and two rooms with an area of ​​15 and 11.5 m²; on the north side, a lower structure with two closets, having an area of ​​5 m² each, was adjoined. This house was intended, apparently, for rent, judging by the project in which the two rooms are called "stations."

In 1909, the house was bought by a wealthy family of Ludwik and Ludwika Kuchar. They moved to Lviv in 1893 and settled first on ul. Żółkiewska (today, vul. Bohdana Khmelnytskoho) 107. The couple had six sons, who, like their father, were all-round athletes associated with the LKS Pogoń club in Lviv, including the football section; later all of them were also officers in the Polish army. Ludwik Kuchar was an entrepreneur, a sports activist and a philanthropist. He was a sponsor of the football club LKS Pogoń Lwów. His main specialty was chemistry: he worked as an administrative director of the alcoholic beverages factory "Piotr Mikolasch i Spółka." In addition, he was the founder and owner of a network of cinemas in Lviv ("Pasaż") and Krakow ("Wanda"). The eldest son, Tadeusz Kuchar (1891-1966), was an engineer, a football coach and the founder of the Polish Olympic Committee, the first president of the Athletics Federation of Poland (1919-1921). He was the director of the main committee of physical culture. Wacław (1897-1981) was the most versatile athlete in the history of Polish and Lviv interwar sports and a football coach. He played for the team of LKS Pogoń Lwów, the national team of Poland, was the captain of the team. He was a champion of Poland in football, hockey and skating, a nine-time winner of the national championships in six different disciplines. After the annexation of Western Ukraine by the USSR, he coached Dynamo Lviv. Władysław (1895-1983) was a great tennis player and athlete; Mieczysław (1902-1939) was a football player, goalkeeper of LKS Pogoń; Zbigniew (1905-1945) was a hockey player of LKS Pogoń; Karol (1893-1960) and Kazimierza (1899-1981, Chodkiewicz after marriage).

Since Ludwik Kuchar was a busy man, the house was run by his wife; in particular, it was she who was entrusted with building their own house. On October 29, 1909, Ludwika Kuchar received permission to have a villa built next to a single-story building constructed in 1901. The villa was designed by architect Zygmunt Pszorn and approved on November 13, 1909. Under this project, the villa was to be a partly single-story and partly two-story structure. In particular, it was noted in the building regulations that "the walls of the house should be made of brick, 60 cm thick and plastered, bathrooms and toilets onthe floors should be covered with a vault on iron rails. From the side of the street, in the regulation line, the site should be fenced off with a decorative fence, according to the attached project."

The construction continued throughout 1910. General communications (water, electricity, gas) were laid at the site, for which funds were paid to the city treasury. On July 14, 1910, Ludwika Kuchar was given permission to connect a section of the sewer canal from the constructed building to the public one on the street. However, due to the fact that the house was being built with a deviation from the project (the single-story part was raised), Zygmunt Pszorn designed an additional project, which was approved on September 12, 1910. By the end of the year, the villa was completed and on January 10, 1911, the Kuchars received permission to live there.

The villa is a large spacious house with two verandas, richly decorated with smithery. The mansion was adapted to a sports lifestyle. Ludwik Kuchar was privately interested in fencing, gymnastics and cycling, so a fencing room was provided in the house. Gymnastic equipment for children was set up in the garden.

According to the project, the entrances to the house (both main one and back one) were arranged through open verandas. However, both verandas were glazed for convenience, using milk textured glass as a decoration in the upper part. It is unknown whether the verandas were glazed immediately or later. The Kuchars lived in the villa until the Second World War.

After the forced eviction, most of the Kuchars found themselves in Warsaw. In 1944, the Soviet authorities accommodated an antituberculous nursery in their villa, which operated there until 1955. On June 1, 1955, a children's tuberculosis sanatorium was opened on the basis of the nursery. The first head physician of the sanatorium was the nursery director, doctor L. L. Moiseenkova, who reorganized the institution and organized the treatment and rehabilitation of children with tuberculosis. There was a sanitary checkpoint, an extended treatment room, a food block, etc. The adaptation did not affect the original layout of the villa, though tiled stoves were reconstructed, and metal stairs leading to the balcony were arranged to ensure fire safety.

In 1999 the sanatorium premises were transferred to communal ownership. The children's tuberculosis sanatorium functioned there until 2020.