Vul. Doroshenka, 49 – residential building ID: 712

This residential building is set back from the building frontage line and situated on complex terrain. It was constructed between 1935 and 1936 according to a design by architect Henryk Sandig for Maks and Karolina Spitzman.

Architecture

The building was constructed in the Functionalist style. It is a five-story brick structure with a semi-basement floor, plastered, and nearly rectangular in layout. The internal layout is of a sectional type. The composition of the principal elevation is symmetrical, featuring a centrally located entrance recessed into the wall plane. At the levels of the second, third, fourth, and fifth floors, bay windows with semicircular corner terminations project from both sides of the façade.

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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

Sources

Державний архів Львівської області (ДАЛО) 2/1/3760

Citation

Khrystyna Kharchuk. "Vul. Doroshenka, 49 – residential building". Lviv Interactive (Center for Urban History). URL: https://lia.lvivcenter.org/en/objects/doroshenka-49/

Author(s): Khrystyna Kharchuk

Language editor: Uliana Holovata