Vul. Bohomoltsia, 06 – Center for Urban History of East Central Europe building

The house is located in the row housing of Bohomoltsia street. This is a former residential townhouse, typical of the 1900s, when houses were designed already connected to the water supply and sewerage systems, as well as to electricity. The nature of the house’s planning was modern as all kitchens and bathrooms were located inside the apartments and not at the wing’s edges, accessible through galleries, as it used to be earlier. In addition, these utility rooms occupy the worst places (in terms of natural lighting). The house's decorative design belongs to the ornamental Secession style, with stylized elements of classical architecture.

The house has three floors, basements and a small attic facing the courtyard. It is built of brick and plastered. The basements are covered with the so-called Klein’s system vault (small brick segment vaults supported by metal beams)while the ceilings between the floors are made of metal I-beams. The framed roof structure is wooden. The roof itself is made of tin and painted dark red. Stucco, majolica tiles, forged metal is used in the façade décor. The staircase has stained glass windows; interior doors and windows have brass fittings; there used to be also a brass railing in the entryway earlier.

The building is U-shaped in plan with a rectangular front building and two wings, as well as a closed courtyard in the middle. According to the original design, two five-room apartments were located on each floor. In each apartment, there were two rooms with windows facing the street and three rooms located in the wing. Kitchens, toilets, and bathrooms as well as cells and niches for servants were placed in the front building. Near one of the apartments, there were winding backstairs leading up to the gallery and then to kitchens or to the laundry and ironing room located in the attic.

The main façade is symmetrical. Its compositional pattern is more typical of historicism: strict symmetry, the façade’s division with stylized "giant" order having a pedestal, pilasters, and entablature. The richest décor can be seen on the main portal and on the side parts of the façade crowned with small attics. Rich décor in the ornamental Secession style is added to this pattern: stylized leaves and flowers around the portal, second floor balconies railing with stylized dandelions, insertions with moulded leaves under the windows and on the stylized capitals of the pilasters.

In 1930 the ground floor apartments were rearranged; as a result, two two-room apartments were formed, one in the front building and the other in the wing. With this in view, some partitions were reconstructed, a door was made in the bearing wall, one of the windows in the wing was expanded and divided into two parts.

Since 2004 the building has been occupied by the Center for Urban History. As it had to be adapted for offices, some reconstruction works were conducted.