Vul. Doroshenka, 23 – residential building ID: 722

This residential building, part of the street's perimeter development, was constructed in 1846 and later rebuilt according to an 1889 design. The entrance portal partially retains its original decorative framing from the time of construction. In 1894, a reconstruction of the shop portals was carried out according to a design by architect Alfred Kamienobrodzki. A subsequent reconstruction of these portals took place in 1936, following a design by architect Antoni Graf. In an older building that previously stood on this site, Józef Polman, a master of daguerreotypes, operated Lviv's first photographic studio starting in 1843. From 1907 to 1939, it housed the warehouse and shop of the Mund brothers' ceramic factory, which produced tiles and facing slabs for many tenement houses.

Architecture

Built in the Classicist style, it is a three-story, brick, and plastered building, nearly square in plan, featuring an inner courtyard. The original layout was of the enfilade type, but it is now sectional. The composition of the principal elevation is symmetrical, with two side protruded sections. The first floor is rusticated, while the second and third floors feature light rustication. In the side sections at the second-floor level, there are balconies on plasterwork brackets with cast metal railings. The windows on the first and second floors have profiled surrounds, decorated on both sides with vertical profiled strings of oak leaves and laurel wreaths at the top, crowned by linear pediments. The entrance gate features a profiled surround with a segmental top, above which sits a linear pediment on two plasterwork brackets with volutes. Pseudo-Tuscan pilasters remain in the building's driveway, topped by plasterwork insets. The driveway ceiling consists of segmental spans decorated with plasterwork rosette insets. The building is topped by a deep-projection profiled cornice supported by plasterwork brackets.

This landmark is a characteristic example of nineteenth-century Lviv residential architecture.

Related buildings and spaces

Vul. Doroshenka
Petra Doroshenka Street lies between Svobody Boulevard and Bandery Street. Its previous names were: Sykstuska (or Sixtuska Gasse up to 1938), Obrony Lwowa (1938-1940), Sykstusstrasse (1941-1944), and Zhovtneva (1940, 1944-1992). This street arose in place of a road that once led from the medieval city walls to the estate of Erasm Sikst/Erazm Sykst, mayor of Lviv in the early seventeenth century and famous medical doctor. In the early twentieth century, the Historicist rental houses were partly replaced by Jugendstil buildings, and later Constructivist ones. 1894 saw an electric tram line being laid in the lower part of the street, leading from the Central Train Station to the Hetmanski Bulwarks, where it forked, leading to the Galician County Fair in Sofijówka, and through the Rynok Square to Lychakiv/Łyczaków. In November 1918 bitter fighting went on for the building of the Main Post Office between Ukrainian and Polish troops.
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Vul. Doroshenka

Sources

Державний архів Львівської області (ДАЛО) 2/1/3742
Львів. Туристичний путівник (Львів: Центр Європи, 1999), 181.
Lwów. Ilustrowany przewodnik (Lwów: Centrum Europy – Wrocław: Via Nova, 2001), 38.

Citation

Khrystyna Kharchuk. "Vul. Doroshenka, 23 – residential building". Lviv Interactive (Center for Urban History). URL: https://lia.lvivcenter.org/en/objects/doroshenka-23/

Author(s): Khrystyna Kharchuk

Language editor: Uliana Holovata