Vul. Bohomoltsia, 08 – residential building

The house is located in the row housing of Bohomoltsia street. This is a residential building whose planning is typical of the early 20^th century townhouses. It is built with the use of modern materials and constructions and with the connection to the water supply, sanitation, and electricity networks. The townhouse is notable for its communications: the front staircase is semieliptical in plan and is lit by a skylight. The back stairs have side lighting and are located not typically, but just behind the front stairs. In the building’s decorative design some features of the geometric and ornamental Secession are combined.

The building has three stories and basements. It is built of brick and plastered. The basements are covered with Klein vaults; the bridgings between the floors are supported by metal I-beams; the attic floor is wooden. The stairs and balconies are made of reinforced concrete. The roof’s wooden structure of rafters and posts is covered with painted tin. Majolica tiles, moulded ornaments, panels with textured plaster surface, forged metal elements are used in the façades, entryway and staircase décor.

The building is U-shaped in plan. Typically, the entrance portal leads to a small entryway with a few steps. From there one can enter a spacious staircase, lit by a glass skylight in the roof. The stairs are semioval in plan; the back stairs are located behind them. According to the original project, there were three apartments on each floor: a four-room one and a six-room one, with kitchens, toilets, bathrooms, and utility premises located inside, and a two-room one situated in the wing and entered from the court or galleries (depending on the floor). The house’s courtyard is combined with the courtyards of the neighbouring townhouses number 11 and 9 on Hulaka-Artemovskoho street and number 7 on Klionovycha street; it is rather well lit and green.

The façade has six axes; its symmetry is broken due to the entrance portal location. Like the neighbouring building number 6, the façade’s general composition scheme is close to the Historicism: the three-part façade has a rusticated ground floor and symmetric protruded wall sections, crowned by attics, on both edges. All windows are rectangular and have no trimmings. The four central windows on the second floor have stylized Secession pediments in the form of moulded circles and a line of square moulded tiles with geometric patterns. On the second floor, there is a balcony, common to two apartments; it is supported by massive reinforced concrete elements serving as both consoles and railing elements. Above the third floor windows, there is a frieze. It is made of blue majolica tiles and continues with moulded décor of prominent horizontal bands on the protruded wall sections. The façade is crowned by a projecting cornice. The composition is made more vertical due to two Secession garlands with long moulded ribbons.

In some places the original window woodwork has been preserved: windows with two vertical casements and another one above at 1/3 of the window’s height, divided by vertical superimposed profiles. The skylight over the stairs has survived, as well as, though just partly, stained glass windows in the wall between the staircases made in the early 20^th century at the workshop of Leon Appel.