Former ul. Pańska, 5 – villa

The two-storied building of the villa (palace) was originally rectangular and had a little avant-corps in the center of its front façade. It was designed in the Neo-Classicist style; the façades were symmetrical, with restrained décor. The building was covered with a hip roof. In the draft projects of extentions, which were constructed in 1870-1880, one can see the villa’s rectangular windows with shaped framings; a bar separating  the ground floor walls surface from that of the upper floor; a flat roof covered with tin. The building had longitudinal and transverse load-bearing brick walls and an enfilade planning, the rooms being arranged in two longitudinal rows. Two extentions (those from 1875 and 1885), which expanded the house from the north and from the south, repeated in general its existing style, but receded from the façade’s central part  for a brick and had a lower second floor and, therefore, a lower roof. Their three- or four-part windows were about 1.8 m wide and were decorated with the same framings as the windows of the building’s older part.

In 1879 a photo studio pavilion was attached to the villa. It was located on the northern side and had a separate entrance. It was a single-storied (L-shaped in plan) building about 8,3 x 14 m in size. The pavilion contained 4 rooms: a larger one next to the entrance, a smaller one on one side, a spacious photo studio room behind them, and a small photo laboratory. It was a modern building constructed with the use of modern materials and constructions. The northern façade, which was not visible from the street, was mostly glazed (the window was about 6 m long). However, the studio’s main (western) façade was designed in conservative Historicist forms, in order not to stand out against the background of the surrounding townhouses. Its attic hid a roof with a skylight. This façade was symmetrical, with a portal in the center and windows on both sides. It was decorated with Tuscan order pilasters on pedestals on the edges. Above the building’s crowning cornice, there was an attic with the photo studio’s name. The windows and doors were rectangular, with shaped trimmings and linear pediments.

In the 18^th-19^th centuries the relief throughout the built-up area of Bohomoltsia street was significantly different from what can be seen there now, clear traces of an earlier bastion being quite visible. When designing a new street in 1903, architect Ivan Levynskyi (Jan Lewiński) drew a cross-section of the territory. On Pańska (Franka) street the difference between the plot and the street sidewalk was 0.5 m. The area in front of the villa and just behind it was slightly raised. The last 24 meters of 116 meters in total, where a garden was located, had a rather steep rise and then a sharp decline by 3.2 meters to the Klonovycha street level.

The fence from Pańska street served also as a retaining wall. In 1872 a new fence was arranged instead of the old one. It was symmetrical and had six plastered brick pillars and metal rods. A wide entrance gate with two wickets on both sides was arranged in the center. This showy fence design indicates the representative character of the villa. In the same year, a small single-storied house for the caretaker was built at the entrance to the plot; it was rectangular in plan and covered with a gable tin roof, with two rooms inside having stove heating. The façades were decorated in the Historicist style: the windows were flanked by pilasters with Corinthian capitals supporting linear pediments with small acroterions.

In general, the whole area had a representative character, typical of the 19^th century. In the middle of the territory in front of the villa a large round flowerbed was arranged, while a regular garden was laid out behind the building. A wooden utility building was located somewhat away to the south. In the northern part of the plot, there was a stable and a cart-shed, which adjoined similar facilities on the neighbouring area in the north where the townhouse on Pekarska street 4 is situated now, and from 1870 bordered the plot number 607 4/4 (former Pańska street 3) in the west. It was a simple single-storied brick building with a pent roof, rectangular in plan, with dimensions of about 30 x 7,5 m. In 1870 it was reconstructed and adapted for housing: three apartments were arranged inside, the existing roof being preserved. Now the main façade had eight axes and was asymmetric. Depending on the room size the window size differed. Half of them had woodwork with twelve panes of glass, the other half — with eight panes. Such design and glazing is typical of the Neo-Classicist period and, in general, for the late 18^th-mid-19^th  century. To light the vestibules the front doors had upper and side lights. There were two semicircular lucarnes in the roof.