Vul. Fedorova, 23 – former residential building
The Renaissance-style townhouse number 23 (Leyzerivska, later the Sub-voivode administration's) was built in the 17th century. In 1912 architect Ferdynand Kasler built a house in the Art Nouveau style in its place, which was destroyed during the Second World War. Today it is a vacant site, where construction of a hotel complex was planned.
Architecture
The Renaissance-style Leyzerivska townhouse had four floors; it was built of brick and stone and was 9 m wide. Regarding its spatial structure, it was characteristic of medieval Lviv: a two-part and two-tract one, with a staircase in the second tract. The façade's architectural design was typical of the Renaissance style. Four axes of windows had rectangular lintels on the third and fourth floors. The second floor with segmental windows in full width was emphasized by a balcony supported by white stone consoles. The cellars and ground floor premises were vaulted. The townhouse had three entrances: to the gate and to the ground floor premises, evidently occupied by shops; another entrance led to the cellars, which were used as a warehouse. The low gable roof was covered with tin. The façade was topped with a cornice, with a row of small rectangular roof windows, which were arranged when replacing the shingle roof with the tin one.
The townhouse, built by Kasler, had a sectional spatial structure which adapted the structure of the Renaissance house by adding a wing. Thus, it was stretched out in the depth of the parcel. The staircase faced the courtyard. The façade was designed in forms patterned after the German Modernism and combining stylized Neo-Classicist elements. The façade had a two-axis composition; the ground floor had large shop-windows and two entrances on the sides. The façade was decorated with banded rustication and emphasized by a stylized pediment with volutes on the sides and a bas-relief vase with fruit as a symbol of prosperity. The two axes of three-part, trihedral (in plan) windows were topped with a stylized cornice with a visor. Between the windows of the third and fourth floors, there were bas reliefs of two putti with garlands and an antique vase filled with fruit, with two birds (sculptor Zygmunt Kurczyński).
The residential townhouse, built by Ferdynand Kasler in 1912, was a bright monument of the Art Nouveau in Lviv.Personalities
Zygmunt Kurczyński – a sculptor
Zlata Schleicher – an owner of the building
Josef Mühel – a construction master
Józef Engel – a constructor (nuilder)
Leib Schleicher – an owner of the building
Lejzor Boruchowicz – an owner of the building
Malka Kurzer – an owner of the building
Reile Rapp – an owner of the building
Rachel Horowiz – an owner of the building
Simche Rappaport – an owner of the building
Ferdynand Kasler – an architect, the building's owner and designer
Jakub Schleicher – an owner of the building
Janusz Witwicki – an architect, who drew a reconstruction of the appearance of the old Renaissance townhouse
Sources
2. M. Bałaban, "Dzielnica żydowska: jej dzieje i zabytki", Biblioteka Lwowska, 1990, T. III, 57.
3. Р. Могитич, "Ліктьовий податок", Вісник ін-ту Укрзахідпроектреставрація, 2009, Ч. 19.