Vul. Bohomoltsia, 09 – Lviv Oblast Prosecutor Office (former residence)

At the north-east corner of the square on Bohomoltsia street, there are houses number 9 and 11, residential buildings constructed together with the factory building owned by the Topf and Elster company. Due to their architectural design the two townhouses look as a whole.

Generally, the houses are typical examples of residential buildings of the first decade of the 20^th century. They were built with the use of modern materials and constructions and with the connection to pipelines and networks. Stylized Historicist elements (Neo-Baroque, Neoclassicist) and Secessionist are combined in their decorative design.

The three-storied house is built of brick and plastered. It has Klein vaults in the basements, metal I-beam bridgings between the floors and a wooden attic floor. The roof’s wooden structure of rafters and posts is covered with tin, painted in dark red. Forged metal elements (balcony railing) and moulding are used in the façades décor.

The house number 9 is located similarly to the house number 7 and has a similar complex configuration in plan, caused by the complexity of the site, by the vicinity of six other townhouses and by the need for natural lighting of all living premises. The building forms three courtyards which are combined with the ones of the neighbouring houses. It can be entered via a portal leading to the passage and to the courtyard. According to the original project, through the corridor on the left one can get (a) to the caretaker’s single-room apartment with a small vestibule and a toilet; (b) to a four-room apartment with a kitchen, a bathroom and a toilet inside; (c) to the courtyard common for Bohomoltsia street 9 and Pekarska street 10; (d) to the factory office, from where one can get to the factory building itself (there were residential apartments on the upper floors above the factory). There are also two rooms located to the right of the passage.

The façade is divided in a manner typical of Historicism: the ground floor, covered with French rustication, is separated from the upper floors by a bar. The upper floors façades are divided by lesenes. The windows are decorated with stylized trimmings and pediments; there is a stylized Neo-Baroque attic above the wide crowning cornice. Some details have a clearly Secessionist nature: moulded flowers in window trimmings, in the frieze under the crowning cornice, and on the attic, as well as plaster textured surfaces on the attics. The gate’s woodwork is designed in Neoclassicist style.

In the interior, two 1904 stained glass windows with etched drawings (in the door light between the hall and the corridor) have survived.

Today, the building has been redesigned and adapted for the public prosecutors’ offices and for the Projecting Institute. The reconstructed attic is used; the roof, where some dormers were arranged, has been replaced. The façades have been restored and are in good condition.