Vul. Krushelnytskoi, 17 – residential building

On the map, the site that partially places building No 17 on vul. Krushelnytskoyi is stripe-shaped and runs along in-between the streets of vul. Krushelnytskoyi and vul. Doroshenka, transversal to their courses. The townhouse is located on the downslope and is a component of the quarter’s abutting housing elongated parallel to the northeast boundary of Franko Park. It has 4 storeys. The upper storey is a superstructure of the late 1920s that violated the proportions of the building.

The façade follows the building frontage line. It is symmetrical, with 9 window axes. It has 2 parts of the wall slightly projecting out on the sides. The central axis is accentuated with an entrance gate with the semicircular arch and a wide 2^nd floor balcony upon molded consoles in the shape of volutes. Above each storey, there are cornices (with dentils and ovums on the 2^nd storey). On the 1^st tier, the façade is decorated with diamond rustication, while banded rustication is used on the 2^nd storey.

The 2^nd floor windows are semicircular, the 3^rd floor windows are segmental. Window openings have profiled trimming. The windows on the central part of the façade are embellished with semi-pilasters and triangular pediments (2^nd floor), and with cornices (3^rd floor). Paired windows on the lateral risalites are flanked with three-quarter console-supported columns and Corinthian order pilasters, or have wide pediments.

The building's principal façade is exceptionally rich in its décor, especially in the plasticwork of its lateral sections. The composition includes mascarons of grotesque creatures and the figure of Athena in a helmet. The plastic decorations are authored by a sculptor Leonard Marconi. The complex of the façade exterior also includes an artful forged balcony railing and the old wooden gate.

In its layout, the building is rectangular with a cut in the southwest corner, while the interior floor plan is based on the three-row layout system. The designer of the architectural project digressed from the L-shaped or U-shaped planning system common for Lviv townhouses. The core of the composition is a spacious staircase in the center of the building. The daylight illumination is secured through a glass ceiling mounted on a metal frame. The house preserved an old structure of the flights of stairs and the forged gratings of the railing.

The interior of the large saloon in the former apartment of the 2^nd storey has also been preserved. It has elements of authentic decorative embellishments (it used to serve as an assembly hall for meetings of the Chamber of Lawyers; presently, it functions as a conference room of the Union of Writers).

The ground floor of the main building has a passageway in the center running across the building to the courtyard. On the left side, there is an entrance to the main staircase. The auxiliary staircase is located in the corner, next to the northern fireproof wall. The southeast corner of the parcel is occupied by a lateral wing, separated from the main building with a courtyard (the ground level of the lateral wing used to function as the stable and the cart shed). The lateral wing has its own staircase. Between the lateral wing and the main building, there are extended enclosed balconies integrated.

The townhouse is an important monument of Lviv Neo-Renaissance architecture.