Vul. Panasa Myrnoho, 25 – residential building ID: 2484

This one-story detached house with an attic floor was constructed between 1925 and 1936 as part of the "Vlasna Strikha" housing cooperative, following standard design No. 2 executed by architect Kazimierz Weiss for Janina Raczkowska (née Piliszewska) and Tadeusz Piliszewski. It serves as an example of "manor house style" ( architecture. The building is a designated architectural landmark of local significance, assigned preservation number 2705 by decision No. 374 of the Lviv Regional Executive Committee on April 15, 1994.

Story

Vul. Panasa Myrnoho is located in the Sykhivskyi District of Lviv, in a neighborhood locally known as "Novyi Lviv". During the Polish period, it was named Kozielnicka and Własna Strzecha streets. In the 1920s, development began on the "Vlasna Strikha" neighborhood, which stretches along present-day Panasa Myrnoho and Energetychna streets (the former name of the latter being Nad Jarem). The street received its current name in 1946 in honor of the Ukrainian writer and playwright Panas Myrnyi (1849–1920).

In the 1920s and 1930s, the house at the current address of vul. Panasa Myrnoho 25 was numbered ul. Kozielnicka 23 (ul. Własna Strzecha).

On October 21, 1925, guided by the building statute of 1885, the city magistrate granted permission to the leadership of the "Vlasna Strikha" Cooperative to construct 24 standardized houses (ДАЛО 2/2/773:9). These houses were to be built along both sides of vul. Panasa Myrnoho on plots purchased from the municipal community, based on three previously developed project variations. These designs were all influenced to varying degrees by the ideas of the "manor house style", which had been actively developing throughout Poland since 1912, when the "Exhibition of Architecture and Interiors in a Garden Setting" (Pol. Wystawa architektury i wnętrz w otoczeniu ogrodowym) was held in Kraków. That exhibition presented numerous buildings in the "manor house style", the prototype for which was the Polish estate from the era of King Stanisław August Poniatowski. At a time when the nations of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were seeking their roots and identity, Poles turned to the golden age of their statehood — the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764–1795).

Initially, it was planned to build 14 houses according to standard design No. 1, 7 houses according to No. 2, and 3 houses according to No. 3. However, on March 12, 1930, the distribution changed: 6 houses under standard design No. 1, 10 houses under No. 2, and 8 houses under No. 3. To develop vul. Panasa Myrnoho, the magistrate laid a road (costing 80,639 zł) and, simultaneously, a sewer line trench for utility installation (costing 16,050 zł). These costs were distributed among the residents of the three house types: Type 1 — 72.45 zł; Type 2 — 68.90 zł; and Type 3 — 69.35 zł (ДАЛО 2/2/773:1). Construction was completed on October 1, 1928 (ДАЛО 2/2/773:9), and the occupancy permit was issued on December 10, 1928 (ДАЛО 2/2/773:9). However, construction likely lasted significantly longer, as documents in the same file indicate another building permit date: June 3, 1931 (ДАЛО 2/2/773:4). A new occupancy permit issued on September 19, 1936, states that the exact start date of construction could not be determined (ДАЛО 2/2/773:8).

On May 25, 1938, the homeowners petitioned the magistrate for permission to construct a garage on the plot (ДАЛО 2/2/773:12).

Today, the building has retained virtually all of its original appearance, with the exception of an added entrance porch structure.

Architecture

This one-story two-family house with a mansard roof and attic floor was built between 1925 and 1936 according to standard design No. 2 by architect Kazimierz Weiss for Janina Raczkowska (née Piliszewska) and Tadeusz Piliszewski.

Each floor of the building was designed as a separate apartment, whose owners shared the surrounding garden. The structure is brick, plastered, featuring Neobaroque pediments and a steep hipped roof clad in ceramic roof tiles.

The building footprint covers 150.65 square meters, with a total structural volume of 1,333.25 cubic meters.

The building contains:

at the basement level: a laundry room, vestibule, two storage rooms, and a stairwell;
at the first-floor level: three rooms, an anteroom, kitchen, toilet, bathroom, maid's room, storage room, stairwell, and a terrace;
the second floor (mansard style): had a layout similar to the first floor;
above the attic floor: additional attic space and roof void (ДАЛО 2/2/773:9).

Twenty-four such houses were constructed simultaneously. Unlike neighboring properties, standard design No. 2 was the most popular (10 houses). Featuring paired columns positioned in the central section of the façade and an ornate, filigree pediment with a delicate arched window crowning the central vertical axis, it most fully embodies the visual hallmarks of the "manor house style".

Compositionally, the façade is divided into three sections: a central section and two side sections. The side sections are symmetrical, each featuring one large window per floor. On the second floor, the central section of the building has two doors leading to a balcony, which is supported on the first floor by paired columns topped with Doric capitals. Beneath the balcony, at the first-floor level, is a terrace accessed from the central room. The central section of the building terminates in a pediment at the attic level. This presentable façade faces only the main street, while the remaining façades are considerably more modest. The rear façade mirrors the main façade, except for the balcony and its supporting columns. The right façade is a blank wall, while the left façade features the main entrance with a porch. High hipped roofs covered in ceramic roof tiles complete the spatial and volumetric design of the house. The upper-floor walls on the side sections of the main and rear façades serve as a decorative extension of the roof, clad in ceramic roof tiles.

People

Tadeusz Piliszewski –– co-owner of the property.
Janina Raczkowska (née Piliszewska) –– co-owner of the property.
Kazimierz Weiss –– architect who developed the design for the house.

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