Vul. Doroshenka, 61 – residential building ID: 713

This residential building is situated on a site with a significant slope and is designed as a corner structure at the location of a driveway leading into the interior block development. It was constructed according to a 1935 design by Solomon Keil for Jakub Gottlieb.

Architecture

The building was constructed in the Functionalist style. It is a four-story brick structure finished with plaster. The internal layout is of a sectional type (two sections per floor), and the ceilings are made of reinforced concrete. The principal elevation features a significant protruded section on the right side of the building, which is emphasized by the vertical rhythm of the staircase windows. The window openings at the corners of the building and the entrance doors are decorated with inserts of exposed red brick.

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) 2/1/3763

Citation

Khrystyna Kharchuk. "Vul. Doroshenka, 61 – residential building". Lviv Interactive (Center for Urban History). URL: https://lia.lvivcenter.org/en/objects/doroshenka-61/

Author(s): Khrystyna Kharchuk

Language editor: Uliana Holovata