Vul. Krakivska, 01 – residential building

14^th c. – a Gothic townhouse is built on the corner parcel.
Mid-16^th c. – the house is reconstructed essentially by Andreas Abrek.
1764 – the house is in a ruined condition.
1769 – a new house is built at the expense of Antoni Kamiński, a watchmaker; the “Tarnavskykh” and “Valishevskykh” house on Krakivska street 3 is merged with it.
1872-1873 – a reconstruction is performed: a fourth floor is added and a low tin roof is made with an attic lighted by a row of small windows under the crowning cornice (architect Michał Fechter).
1913 – a portal entrance is arranged instead of a window from Trybunalska (now Shevska) street (architect Henryk Salver).
1924 – a portal entrance is made from Krakivska street (on the extreme axis); the entrance from Shevska street is bricked up (architect Leopold Reiss).
1939 – a restoration of the portals (architect A. Bilbel); shop windows are made on the ground floor from Krakivska street (architect W. Blein).
Mid-20^th c. – a reconstruction with a change of the planning structure of the building above ground level: the staircases in both parts of the house are dismantled, and instead a common one is arranged in the courtyard. There is a custom tailoring atelier on the ground floor.
1986 – a restoration of the ground floor is performed (architect Y. Kushnir of the Zakhidproektrestavratsiya Institute).
2004-2005 – a reconstruction of the roof and repairs of the façades are performed (architect D. Kryvosheyeva, 2001).
2008 – the sculptural composition of the “All-seeing eye” is restored (restorer Janusz Smaza from Warsaw). The ground floor premises are adapted for the “Sweets” shop and a tailoring atelier.
2012 – the ground floor premises are adapted for the “Diadema” café.

This corner house stands on one of the oldest streets of the town built according to the Magdeburg Law principles. The street begins from the north-western corner of the Rynok (Market) square. The district, where the house is situated, is for the first time mentioned in the oldest of the preserved town record books of Lviv (1382). The street, which began from the north-western corner of the Rynok square and went through the Tartharorum platea (Tatar district), led to the Tatar gate. From 1441 both the street and the gate were called Krakivska (Cracowian).

The housing of the parcel changed with the course of time: the house was renewed and reconstructed substantially; its cellars, though, remained intact from the time of Lviv’s Gothic architecture. In the mid-16^th century the house was bought by Andreas Abrek, a Lviv patrician of German origin, doctor of medicine and councillor; it was from him that the house got its name. Abrek reconstructed the old house essentially after it was burnt in the 1556 fire. After his death the house was owned by his widow, Mrs Abrekova. On the walls and shutters of the façade facing Shevska street, Lviv residents used to write various epigrams and to draw caricatures directed against certain citizens and the Magistrate. The first victim of these tricks was Mrs Abrekova herself. In 1601 the Magistrate forbade to do this and even posted a guard near the house. It was in this resolution that the house was called “Abrekivska”. In 1613 the house became a home for military rebels who were not paid after they came back from a campaign against Muscovy.

From the middle of the 17^th century till 1767 the house was owned by the family of Bobrocki. In 1764 it was stated by a commission that the house was so ruined that its remains should be dismantled and a new house should be built there. In 1767 the ruin was bought by Antoni Kamiński, a Lviv watchmaker, one of the founders of the watchmakers’ guild in Lviv. In 1769 Kamiński built a new house on the old cellars and merged it with the old house no. 3 known as “Tarnavskykh” (“Tarnawskich”) and “Valishevskykh” (“Waliszewskich”). Various artisans (saddlers, armourers, tailors) lived and worked in the house no. 3 from the 16^th century.

In 1872-1873 a reconstruction was carried out: a fourth floor was added and a tin roof was made with attic windows on the façade (architect Michał Fechter). In 1913 a portal entrance was arranged instead of a window facing Trybunalska (now Shevska) street under a project designed by Henryk Salver.

As of 1913, various officials and commersants lived in the house: Jakub Binder, Józef Sokler, Jan Dziuba, Betti Dimand, Izrael Bardach, Szymon Manner. There were two shops on the ground floor, a Chune Scheer’s women’s small wares shop and a seasonings shop owned by Antoni Olejarnik. A men’s clothes shop, which belonged to M. Passel, occupied a part of the house no. 3. There was a bookshop and a hats shop in the interwar period there.

In 1924 a portal entrance was arranged from Krakivska street (on the extreme axis) under a project by Leopold Reiss; the entrance from Shevska street was bricked up. In 1939 a project of the portals restoration was designed by architect A. Bilbel; architect Władysław Bleim designed the ground floor shop windows from Krakivska street.

During a reconstruction in the postwar period the planning structure of the building above ground level was partially changed; the staircases in both parts of the house were dismantled, and instead a common one was arranged in the courtyard. There was a custom tailoring atelier on the ground floor at that time.

A draft design of the ground floor restoration was designed by architect Y. Kushnir of the Zakhidproektrestavratsiya Institute in 1986; the Lviv custom tailoring and clothes repair factory acted as the customer. In 2004-2005 a reconstruction of the roof was performed, as well as repairs of the façades (architect D. Kryvosheyeva, 2001). In 2008 the sculptural composition of the “All-seeing eye” was restored (restorer Janusz Smaza from Warsaw). There was the “Sweets” shop and a tailoring atelier in the ground floor premises of the house no. 1; since 2012 these premises have been occupied by the “Diadema” café.