Vul. Fedorova, 12 – residential building
The four-storied building, earlier a residential townhouse, was built in 1906 in Historicist style with elements of Secession on the foundations and cellars of the Renaissance Krauzivska (Krauzowska) townhouse. According to the Lviv Region Executive Committee's resolution number 130 dated 26 February 1980, the building was entered on the List of monuments of local significance under protection number 353. Today the building's ground floor premises are occupied by a confectionery named Charivnyi Likhtar (The Magic Lantern).
Architecture
The house is located within dense housing. The four-storied building is rectangular in plan and built of brick on stone foundations; it is plastered and covered with a high tin roof. The previous townhouse's brickwork has been preserved in the cellars and ground floor premises. In the architectural décor of the house's façade, the Art Nouveau (with certain Historicist elements) is reflected as the predominant style at the turn of the 20th century. The façade has no architectural clarity and expression, typical of the buildings erected in the first half and middle of the 19th century. This is caused by the accumulation of various decorative details. Horizontally, the wall is divided with cornices, which are crossed by vertical lines of pilasters and lesenes. The five windows on the three upper floors are symmetrical: two paired ones on each side and one in the middle, emphasized by pilasters. The ground floor, covered with horizontal banded rustication, contrasts with the upper ones. The horizontal cornices of the second and fourth floors are fractured in the middle, forming a semicircle above the windows filled with stucco cartouches among acanthus leaves. Small balconies are arranged on the edges of the third and fourth floors; the third floor balconies are supported by consoles and have Secession-style patterns on their metal railings. The recesses below the second floor extreme windows are filled with balusters. The entrance gate is arranged in the left part of the façade. The façade is crowned by a profiled cornice.
The walls of the wings are at all their height covered with continuous horizontal rustication; there are no horizontal cornices. The wing, situated on the right of the entrance, has balconies on all floors.
The building's present appearance corresponds to the 1905 project, except for minor changes in the façade décor.
Personalities
Artur Schleyen – architect who did the additional drafts for the construction of the townhouse
Bernard Frucht – owner of the parcel since 1904 who dismantled the old house
The Krauzes – a family who owned the house since the 17th century
Michał Fechter – architect who managed the construction works
Олександр Пежанський – architect who supervised the façade restoration in 1930
Rachmiel Merkel – a trader who owned the building in the late 19th century till 1904
Filip Ewin – a lawyer who owned the house after the First World War
Zille Katz – co-owner of the building in 1875
Józef Grunberg – co-owner of the building in 1875
Józef Katz – co-owner of the building in 1875
Józefa Jankowska – co-owner of the building in 1875 in the mid-19th century
Sources
- State Archive of Lviv Oblast (DALO) 2/1/446.
- Central State Historic Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (CDIAL) 186/8/629.
- Вуйцик Володимир, Leopolitana (Львів: Класика, 2013), 95-98.
- Капраль М., Національні громади Львова ХVІ–ХVІІІ ст. (Львів, 2003).
- Могитич Р., "Ліктьовий податок", Вісник ін-ту Укрзахідпроектреставрація, 2009, Ч. 19