Vul. Doroshenka, 34 – residential building ID: 708

This residential building, part of the street's perimeter development, was constructed in 1908. In 1936, the first floor was remodeled according to a design by architect Antoni Graf. It stands as a characteristic example of early twentieth-century Lviv residential architecture.

Architecture

The building was constructed in the Art Nouveau style with Neoclassical elements. It is a three-story brick structure finished in plaster. The composition of the principal elevation is symmetrical. While the original layout was of an enfilade type, it has since been converted to a sectional arrangement. A profiled stringcourse runs between the first and second floors. At the second-floor level, a central balcony is supported by plasterwork corbels in the form of volutes, featuring a plasterwork railing of balusters. The windows on the second and third floors are flanked by semicolumns with capitals of the Corinthian order and are topped with triangular pediments. Plasterwork inserts with balusters are positioned above them. The third-floor windows are also flanked by Corinthian capitals and finished with linear pediments. A profiled cornice with brackets decorated with acanthus leaves runs beneath them. The building is crowned by a prominent, deep-profiled cornice supported by plasterwork brackets.

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    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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Sources

Державний архів Львівської області (ДАЛО) 2/1/3758

Citation

Khrystyna Kharchuk. "Vul. Doroshenka, 34 – residential building". Lviv Interactive (Center for Urban History). URL: https://lia.lvivcenter.org/en/objects/doroshenka-34/

Author(s): Khrystyna Kharchuk

Language editor: Uliana Holovata

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