Vul. Kotliarevskoho, 47 – residential building
The former villa of Karol Dziadoń Dzieliński, was built in 1903-1906 by the Jan Lewiński company under a project designed by Alfred Zachariewicz. It is a bright example of Romantic architecture, it stands out by its unplastered red brick façades. It is an architectural monument of local significance no. 116.
Architecture
The brick two-storied house with basements and an attic floor has open brickwork, a plastered rear façade and steep roofs. Its spatial structure is formed by two uneven blocks constructed at different times; the blocks are connected by a staircase, which is semicircular in plan and protrudes behind the east façade's front. Instead of the original wooden verandah, a modern verandah, designed in the form of a half-timbered structure, is adjacent to the rear façade.
The villa is accentuated by a small spired tower (on the northwest corner of the older block) and by chimneys covered with glazed tiles, which, along with open brickwork and high roofs, provide the villa with a Gothicizing character.
The building's façades are designed with the use of architectural and decorative and plastic means: open brickwork; the window openings emphasized by projecting segmental brick lintels with white stone keystones in the basement windows; white stone corners and a belt course emphasizing the lower tier at the basement level; wooden projections of the roofs; coloured glazed tiles on the attic roofs (preserved on the spired four-pitched roof of the tower); ornamental forged string pieces of the ceilings, tall brick chimneys, the staircase balcony with a fence made of rolled iron. The main façade (overlooking Kotliarevskoho street) is emphasized by a triangularly projecting paired window on a stepped console, covered with a pyramidal gable roof.
The house can be entered through a small vestibule adjacent to the staircase from the main (northern) side. The wooden double door of the main entrance is decorated with woodwork binding elements (hinges, bolts, a lock), emphasizing the villa's romantic nature.
The wooden staircase interior is designed in the Neo-Gothic style: wooden railings, a decorative element of the intermediate platform lighting, sconces and shaped decorative consoles.
The building is an illustrative example of Lviv's romantic villa housing of the Art Nouveau period.
Personalities
Karol Dziadoń Dzieliński — the initial owner of the building
Julian Zachariewicz — a renowned architect, professor of the Lviv Polytechnic
Ivan Levynskyi (Jan Lewiński) — a famous architect, builder and entrepreneur
Ludwik Nabielak — a Polish poet after whom the street was named. He was famous for his active position against Germanisation of the Slavs
Gábor Szarvas — an architect who designed a reconstruction project in 2007, head of the Cultural Society of the Lviv Hungarians
Karol Janiczek — a master builder and engineer who designed the villa's adaptation in 1937
Interview
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