Vul. Bohomoltsia, 11a – residential building

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.