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    Vul. Doroshenka, 26 – Lviv branch office of Ukrtelecom JSC ID: 723

    This former residential building was constructed in 1926 according to a design by architect Yevhen Chervinskyi. For over 70 years, the building has housed an automatic telephone exchange.

    Architecture

    Built in the Art Deco style, this four-story, brick, and plastered structure features a complex layout. The interior layout is of a sectional type. The primary feature of the principal elevation's composition is a rhythmic row of large rectangular window openings. The windows on the first floor are fitted with grilles and framed by massive mirror rustication. The second-floor windows feature profiled window trimming and matching windowsill shelves, whereas the window trimming and shelves on the third floor are significantly more modest. Separated from the third floor by a profiled cornice , the fourth floor features large rectangular windows with grilles , divided by stylized pilasters and decorated at the bottom with baluster insets.

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    • 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

      Vul. Doroshenka

    Sources

    1. Державний  архів Львівської області (ДАЛО) 2/1/3741
    2. Львів. Туристичний путівник (Львів: Центр Європи, 1999), 182.
    3. Lwów. Ilustrowany przewodnik (Lwów: Centrum Europy – Wrocław: Via Nova, 2001), 106.

    Citation

    Khrystyna Kharchuk. "Vul. Doroshenka, 26 – Lviv branch office of Ukrtelecom JSC". Інтерактивний Львів (Центр міської історії). URL: https://lia.lvivcenter.org/en/objects/doroshenka-26/

    Author(s): Khrystyna Kharchuk

    Language editor: Uliana Holovata