Vul. Bohomoltsia, 05 – residential building

The house is located in a row housing of Bohomoltsia street, its main façade overlooking the square in the center of the street. This is a residential townhouse, typical of the first years of the 20^th century: it is constructed with the use of modern building materials and constructions and connected to the electricity system, water supply and sewerage network. Because of a small size of the plot, the area is built up as much as possible, only one apartment being arranged on each floor. The house is notable for a spacious staircase, which is hexagonal in plan and is illuminated by a skylight. In the townhouse decoration the Secession motifs are dominating; some stylized elements of classical architecture were also used.

The house has four floors and basements. It is built of brick, intermediate floors lean on metal I-beams. The roof has a structure made of wooden rafters and posts and is covered with tin. The façades are plastered; forged metal, majolica tiles, and moulding are used in their decoration.

The plot, where the house is located, is relatively narrow (10.3 m) and about 19 m long in the longest place. The building is T-shaped in plan. In the south, its courtyard is connected with the courtyard of the house № 3 while in the north it adjoins the house № 7. According to the original project, one five-room apartment was arranged on each floor, with a kitchen in the wing and with bathrooms and toilets inside the house.  An apartment for the caretaker, a laundry and five cellars were located in the basement.

The four-window main façade has an emphasized central symmetry axis. The symmetry is broken only by the entrance portal location. The façade division is rather classical: two lower floors are separated with a bar; the façade is crowned with a moulded entablature; stylized pilasters at the level of floors 3-4 "support" the attic. Balcony railings, a frieze between the third floor windows and other sculptural inserts have an expressly Secession nature; the same can be said of the window woodwork (mostly preserved) and the door metalwork.

It is clear that the house has undergone alterations for the last century. Moreover, the staircase walls and ceilings were painted as usual, hiding their original design; the doors to the apartments have been replaced and so on. On the other hand, the authentic reinforced concrete stairs covered with wood and having stylistic metal railing have survived, as well as the floor on the ground floor covered with ornamented ceramic tiles.