Vul. Lychakivska, 005 – residential building

Early 19^th c. — the original front house and the north wing were built.
1856 — the original west wing with a stable and a cart shed was built.
1868 — the east wing was constructed.
1872 — a two-storied residential wing is built on the previous foundations in the place of the west wing.
1886-1889 — the three-storied main building is built.
1924 — a superstructure is added to the main building.
1934 — the rear single-storied building is reconstructed as a three-storied one.
Soviet times — one floor is added to the main building; the wings' wooden balconies are replaced with reinforced concrete ones.
2008 — authentic baroque balconies on the main façade are replaced with tin ones.

Lychakivska street is one of the main arteries of Lviv. Its ancient name, the Hlyniańska road, was correspond to the direction of the nearby town of Hlyniany. The modern name comes from the suburban village of Lychakiv which emerged on the grounds owned by the city in the 16^th c.

The house no. 5 is located in what was once the Lychakivske suburb (pl. Przedmieście Łyczakowskie/ge. Lyczakower Vorstadt), earlier a part of the Halytske suburb). The parcel, where the building no. 5 stands, is quite large. It was there that the curtain of Lviv's eastern defensive line passed, which is marked on the 1766 map. That is why it was still not planned for the construction in the late 18^th c. (this area has no number on the 1777 map). In the first half of the 19^th century it was gradually built up as the plot under conscription number 99 4/4; on the 1849 cadastral map of Lviv it is marked with topographical no. 3106. At that time, there was a masonry rear building and a small main one there. The rear building was adjacent to the scarped curtain. In 1855 the main two-storied house was reconstructed with arranging new stairs in it; the reconstruction was carried out under a project designed by builder Joseph Ferenz, commissioned by August Schumann, the plot owner. In 1856 Schumann ordered a project for the construction of a masonry west wing with arranging a shed, a stable and a cart shed. In 1857 a single-storied industrial building with a stove in the Biedermeier style was added to the rear north wing, which had some production function, close to the garden of the Viceregency (now the territory of the Regional State Administration); the project was designed by Joseph Ferenz. In 1863 August Schumann commissioned architect Edmund Köhler to design a project for the completion of the office and a storehouse for metal products adjacent to the west wing. In 1867, under a project designed by Köhler, August Schumann had the main building reconstructed adding two window axes to it.

In 1868, under a project designed by the same architect, a two-storied east wing was built, including apartments and a machinery workshop on the ground floor. In 1872, under a project designed by Köhler, a two-storied residential building was built by Schumann on the previous foundations in the place of the west wing with the stable and the cart shed.

In 1874 the main building's shingle roof was replaced with a tin one. Before 1885 the parcel became owned by Leon Bratkowski. In 1885 he commissioned architect Ivan Levynskyi (Jan Lewiński) to design a project for a minor reconstruction of the west wing; however, the project was not approved. In 1886 Levynskyi designed for Bratkowski a project for the construction of a three-storied residential building with semibasements and the reconstruction of the east and west wings. The single-storied north wing remained unchanged. The main building was designed in the style of Historicism with Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Classicist elements. In 1889 Levynskyi submitted a revised project of the main building with Neo-Baroque balconies.

In 1903 an additional project for the construction of a three-storied rear wing was ordered by Bratkowski; however, it was not implemented. In 1924, under a project designed by Władysław Derdacki and Stanisław Rewucki, an additional floor was added to the main building. In 1934, under a project designed by architect Leopold Karasiński, the rear single-storied house, owned by the cartographic and publishing factory Atlas, was reconstructed as a three-storied residential one. In the Soviet times, another floor was added to the main building. During major repairs the wings' wooden balconies were replaced with reinforced concrete ones.

According to the Lviv Region Executive Committee's resolution number 44 dated 28 January 1986, the building was entered on the List of monuments of local significance under protection number 619-M.

In 2008 the balconies on the main façade were replaced with tin ones. Since the 1990s the basement premises overlooking the street have been rented by private entrepreneurs and used as shops.