Vul. Klyonovycha, 3 – residential building ID: 80

A corner residential Historicist building at the intersection of Klionovycha and Hulaka-Artemovskoho Streets, constructed in 1893 according to a common project for four buildings by the architects Jakub Sołomon Kroch and Maurycy Silberstein and located today on 5 and 7 Levytskoho Street, 3 Klionovycha Street and 4 Hulaka-Artemovskoho Street. The project was approved by the magistrate in 1893. This building belonged to the architects Kroch and Silberstein at the turn of the 20th century. Today it is used for residential purposes (2009). 

Story

The building at 3 Klionovycha Street was constructed according to a common project for four buildings by the architects Jakub Sołomon Kroch and Maurycy Silberstein and located on parcel number 504, 505 and 506 4/4 under conscription numbers 726 4/4 (5 Kokhanovskoho Street, presently Levytskoho Street), 727 4/4 (7 Kokhanovskoho), 728 4/4 (3 Klionovycha) and 725 4/4 (4 Milkovskoho Street, presently Hulaka-Artemovskoho Street). The project was approved by the magistrate on 10 September 1893. The above-mentioned buildings belonged to the architects J. Kroch and M. Silberstein at the turn of the nineteenth century.

On 14 June 1913 Teresa Bernfeld, the owner of the building on 3 Klionovycha Street, asked the magistrate to pass a resolution regarding a wall in her building getting wet because of a damaged water pipe in the lavatories of a neighboring building owned by Tomasz Zieliński and located on 7 Kokhanovskoho Street. On 16 June 1913 the magistrate transferred this appeal to the government building agency.

On 17 September 1904 J. Kroch protested against a resolution of the magistrate dated 25 July 1904 regarding the order to move a toilet sink from the guard’s premises outside and threatening him with a fine in case of not obeying the resolution. Dr. Albert Reis, the attorney of J. Kroch, submitted an appeal regarding this regulation since in his opinion the case regarding the move of a toilet sink was legally unfounded and the water supply service did not demand anything like that. The attorney’s appeal explained that in the building of 3 Klionovycha Street each renter had a sink in his kitchen for his own usage. Only a single-room apartment on the first floor did not have such a sink since it had been part of the neighboring premises and had become a rental facility later on. It was not necessary to set up a sink in his premise since its renter needed just one pitcher of water which he was getting either from the guard or from the water pipe outside. The attorney asked the magistrate to cancel the regulation dated 25 July 1904.

Architecture

Created in the Revival style, this three-story building is constructed of plastered brick. The asymmetric composition of the main façades is emphasized by supported side sections which are accentuated with a rounded corner on the street intersection. The entrance portal from Klionovycha Street is located to the left. The first floor is emphasized by decorative horizontal rustication. Buttressed sections of the building are beautified with light horizontal rustication on the level of the second floor and are accentuated with vertical Pseudo-ionic pilasters on the level of the third floor. Profiled belt courses run between the first and second floor and under the windows of the second and third floors. The tops of the windows of the first floor are adorned with keystones. The windows of the second and third floors have profiled frames. On the second floor, the windows are emphasized by triangular window cornices connected by a profiled belt course. Insertions of molded women’s heads in the center are located between these window cornices and window frames. On the third floor the windows are decorated with linear window cornices. The building is crowned with a profiled cornice with modillions, a number of denticles and an Ionic belt course. 

People

Stefania Baraniecka — resident of the building (1910)
Władysław Baraniecki — pensioner, former tax collector, resident of the building (1910)
Tereza Bernfeld — owner of the building (1910, 1916)
Bruno Hertel — instructor, resident of the building (1913)
Aleksander Gostkowski — private clerk, resident of the building (1910)
Karol d’Endel — treasury clerk, retired, resident of the building (1913)
Emilia Zielińska — widow of a railway worker, resident of the building (1910)
Marek Klug — tax adviser, resident of the building (1910)
Jakób Salomon Kroch — architect, author of the design, co-owner of the building
Leontyna Kwiatkowska — owner of the building (1920s)
Celina Medyńska — resident of the building (1910)
Edmund Menkes — merchant, resident of the building (1913)
Tytus Mukoczyński — treasury clerk, resident of the building (1910)
Feliks Przysiecki — journalist, resident of the building (1910)
Urszula Śliwińska — widow, resident of the building (1910)
Maurycy Silberstein — architect, author of the design, co-owner of the building
Artur Formusz — confectionery manager, resident of the building (1913)
Ryszard Schichendanz — hairdresser, resident of the building (1910)
Tadeusz Szymon — employee of the Workers’ Insurance Institution, resident of the building (1910)

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