Vul. Bohomoltsia, 07 – residential building

The house is located at the corner of the square on Bohomoltsia street. This is a residential townhouse typical of the early 20th century. It was built with the use of modern materials and constructions and with the connection to water supply, sanitation, and electricity networks. Due to the complexity of the site, the house has an unusual form in plan. Its decorative design is also unusual for Lviv as elements of the ornamental Secession, Neo-Romanesque and Neo-Gothic styles are combined in its decoration.

The building has three floors and basements. It is built of brick and plastered. Presumably, like all the other houses on Bohomoltsia street, it has Klein vaults in the basements, metal I-beam bridgings between the floors and a wooden attic floor. The roof’s wooden structure made of rafters and posts is covered with tin; originally, the roof was tiled.

An irregular shape of the plot, as well as the vicinity of six other townhouses and the need for natural lighting of all living quarters, resulted in a complex configuration of the house’s layout. According to the original plan, there were two apartments on the ground floor: a three-room one and a four-room one. A caretaker’s room was located in the wing near the back stairs. The second and third floor apartments were larger and had six rooms (with some premises situated above the entryway and the caretaker’s room). Each apartment had a kitchen, toilets and bathrooms as well as a spacious salon (living room), from where a triangular loggia could be entered in the larger apartments which was rather unusual for an early 20^th century Lviv townhouse. In the basement, there was a laundry and cellars.

The building is quite asymmetric. Its two façades overlook the square; triangular loggias are located between them on all floors. On both sides of the façades, there are thin protruded wall sections with mullioned windows. According to the original design, the façade was to be designed in Neo-Gothic forms: rectangular windows with trimmings having facets; rectangular biforiums, their tympanums filled with tracery tops; slightly protruded wall sections crowned by triangular gables with pinnacles at the corners. However, different design was implemented which featured Neo-Romanesque style. The biforia are semicircular, there is no tracery, the gables are replaced by segmental attics with semicircular windows (stylized Romanesque blind arcades). At the same time, some signs of the ornamental Secession style can be seen in the metalwork of the main portal, in the flower ornament on the capitals of the biforia's columns, in the mascaron keystone in the shape of a female head above the loggia, as well as in the forged railings of the balconies. One can also see an unusual lunette consisting of three narrow trefoils there.

Except for some rearrangements and the roof replacement, the house has been preserved relatively unchanged on the outside. The roof has been replaced, as well as the staircase interior design. A few windows and the loggia on the façade have modern metal gratings which differ somewhat from the general style of the house.