Vul. Sichovykh Striltsiv, 14 – building of Ivan Franko University (former residential house)
The monumental building, part of dense quarter of the University buildings' block was once home to several well-known banks (such as Credit Institution for Trade and Industry — presently Creditanstalt). It was built in 1883–1884 according to the design of Julian Zachariewicz, the leading architect of Lviv historicism. The exterior shows Neo-Renaissance motifs. Later extensions are dated by 1909–1911 and 1922–1923. Presently, the Law faculty of Ivan Franko National University in Lviv is located here.
Architecture
Building #14 on vul. Sichovykh Striltsiv is a corner building. Together with the adjoining building #16 it forms a group, thus accentuating the southern side of the university block (former Galician Diet block). It is included into the line of row houses on vul. Sichovykh Striltsiv and Kostiushka.
The building has six storeys, and an attic. Two symmetrical façades have six window axes each. The southern façade facing vul. Sichovykh Striltsiv is flanked with wide slender avant-corps. It has three balconies, with the main entrance portal to the left. The eastern façade, on the side of vul. Kostiushka, next to the right edge, has an arched gateway and a driveway to the courtyard. The windows of the third floor are framed with the "broken" Mannerist profiles and have triangular pediments on top. Horizontal divisions dominate in the façades' composition, they are accentuated with wide a cornice with modilions above the 4th floor, and with a narrower one above the 2nd floor, as well as with stripes of horizontal rustication.
The land plot where the building #14 stands is trapezoidal in shape, its proportions approach a square. Three wings of the building enclose the courtyard adjacent to the southern boundary wall of the main university building. The layout is U-shaped. Major part of the courtyard area is covered with the one-storey pavilion (added in 1909–1911). The western fireproof wall borders with the building #16.
Inside, there is a corridor-type arrangement. The staircase is square shaped in the layout. It is located in the corner between the southern and eastern wings. Presently, the former office rooms of the banking institution are adapted to function as classrooms of the Law Faculty of Ivan Franko National University in Lviv. The pavilion of the old operations hall in the courtyard is transformed into a library block.
There are neo-Renaissance motifs in the decoration of the facades (originally included in the design of Julian Zachariewicz). As to decorative details, moulded consoles and forged gratings are notable, as well as carving and forging adornments of the entrance gate on the eastern façade. Later, molded metal detailson the upper floor was added (maskarons of the roof drainage). In the interiors, neo-Classicist shapes of the early 20th c. are dominant, they had been introduced during the reconstruction of 1909–1911.
Personalities
Alfred Zachariewicz (Alfred Zachariewicz) — a co-owner of the construction firm which
handled the reconstruction of the townhouse in 1909–1911.
Anselm von Rothschild (Anselm Salomon von Rothschild) — founder of the "Royal Imperial Privileged Institution for Trade and Industry".
Michal Ułam — engineer and architect, owner of the construction firm designing and perfoming works for the superstructure of the 5th floor and the
attic level.
Stanisław Brykczyński — ambassador to the Sejm, owner of the townhouse built in 1883–1884 and named in his honour.
Józef Sosnowski — architect and developer, co-owner of the construction firm performing the reconstruction of the townhouse in 1909–1911.
Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz (Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz) — a prominent architect, author of the project design for the Brykczyński townhouse.
Sources
- State Archive of Lviv Oblast (DALO) 2/1/1086.
- Barański F., Przewodnik po Lwowie: Z planem i widokami Lwowa (Lwów: b.d., 1902), 143.
- Przewodnik z Krakowa do Lwowa, Podhorzec, Podwołoczysk, Brodów, Słobody Rungierskiej, Czerniowiec i po Lwowie (Lwów, 1896), 140.
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