Vul. Kotsiubynskoho, 26 – residential building

The house is located on vul. Kotsiubynskoho, steeply sloping from vul. Ivana Franka to the Citadel. This street was laid in 1863 along the stream of Soroka, a tributary of the Poltva river, between the slopes of the Poznanska and Kalicha hills, and was originally called Uzvizna (Pol. Wąwozowa). In the late 19^th century the street was named in honor of Józef Supiński. That is when it began to be built up with residential housing in the styles of Historicism and, later, Art Nouveau. In 1944 the street was named after Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, a Ukrainian writer, who used to stay there, coming to Lviv.

The street’s upper part is built up with later Functionalist-style houses. In particular, the house number 26 on an elongated plot under conscription number 147/3 was erected in 1939. It was built in place of a previous one constructed in 1895, in the late Historicist style, and belonged to Leon and Jadwiga Giżycki. In the 1930s the plot became the property of Wawrzyniec Korn, a lawyer, who was going to construct a new building for wealthy residents, with comfortable apartments and with garages in the courtyard. In the rear part of the plot, a small public garden was planned on a rising ground. The building project was designed by Aleksander Kapłoński, a government constructor. On 19 July 1938 the Magistrate granted permission for the construction in accordance with the submitted project. By the end of 1938 the concrete foundations of the house and garages were made. In 1939 some amends were made in the project, concerning a partial rearrangement of apartments. The additional project was designed by architect engineer Józef Thorn. On 1 September 1939 Korn was given permission to move into the new house. This was the day when the war began; Soviet troops entered the city three weeks later. So Korn probably did not have time to use his property.