Oral History of Lviv ID: 10

A three-storied building was constructed in 1906 under a project developed at the bureau of Ivan Levynskyi (Jan Lewiński) as an apartment house belonging to Leon Stauber, an entrepreneur. The principal façade was designed by architect Tadeusz Obmiński. This ornamental Secession style building is one of the best examples of this style in Lviv and has been listed as an architectural monument (protection number 6). Today, much of it is occupied by the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe.

A three-storied row townhouse was built in 1905-1906 under a project designed at Ivan Levynskyi's (Jan Lewiński) architectural bureau for the Elster and Topf company. This townhouse is a part of a Secession-style ensemble of residential buildings surrounding a green square in the center of the street. It is an architectural monument of local significance (protection number 4). Today the building is residential.

This four-storied residential building in the row housing of Bohomoltsia street is one of the six townhouses surrounding the green square in the center of the street. It was built in 1905-1906 under a project developed at the bureau of Ivan Levynskyi (Jan Lewiński). This is a residential building in the Secession (Art Nouveau) style, an architectural monument of local significance (protection number 5). Today it is used only for dwelling purposes.

The four-storied (originally three-storied) residential townhouse at the corner of Bohomoltsia and Klionovycha streets was built in 1907-1908 under a project designed by architect Julian Cybulski for lawyer Alfred Zgórski and his wife Maria. The townhouse is constructed in a style which blends elements of the Historicism and ornamental Secession (Art Nouveau). Today the building is used for dwelling purposes.

This three-storied residential townhouse was built in 1907 under a project designed at the architectural bureau of Ivan Levynskyi (Jan Lewiński) for the Elster and Topf company owned by Izrael and Salomon Elster as well as by Leon Topf. This is a residential building in Secession (Art Nouveau) style, and an architectural monument of local significance (protection number M-8). Now it is used mainly for dwelling purposes; the Maltese Aid Service in Lviv charity office is located in one of the apartments.

The three-storied townhouse was built in 1905 under a project designed by architect Henryk Salwer for barber Herman Wallach. This is an example of the early Modernist residential townhouse of the first decade of the 20th century. It is designed in the Secession (Art Nouveau) style with some historicizing elements. Today it is used for dwelling purposes.

A three-storied townhouse at the corner of Bohomoltsia and Klionovycha streets was built in 1907-1908 under a project designed by architect Julian Cybulski for doctor Józef Gracka; apart from the latter’s apartment and apartments for rent, there was also his consulting room there. The house is an example of the early Modernist residential townhouse of the first decade of the 20th century, decorated in the Historicist style with some Secession (Art Nouveau) elements. Joachim Schall, a cinema entrepreneur who was well known in Lviv, lived here in the 1930s. Today (2014) the building is occupied, except residential apartments, by the Honorary Consulate of the United Mexican States and by a travel agency office. 

A three-storied residential building constructed in 1906 under a project designed by architect Ivan Levynskyi (Jan Lewiński) for Henryk Gottlieb Haszlakiewicz. This is a residential townhouse in the style of Secession (Art Nouveau) with some elements of the Neo-Romanesque and Neo-Gothic styles, an architectural monument (protection number M-7). Among the residents of this house in the early 20th century, there were Yevhen Olesnytskyi, a member of the Galician Sejm and of the Imperial Council in Vienna, and Adam Krechowiecki, the editor of Gazeta Lwówska; architects Adam Opolski and Ignacy Kędzerski had their office there. Today the building is used for dwelling purposes.

The apartment building was constructed in 1910–1911. The co-authors of the project were architect Jan Bageński and builder Wojciech Dembiński. It is a four-story stone building with a basement and an attic floor under a high roof. It has an L-shaped layout with an elongated wing, the broken arm of which surrounds the inner courtyard. It is part of the perimeter development. The facade features narrow two- and three-section windows and an avant-corps, complemented by asymmetrically placed balconies, with the entrance gate shifted to the right and a high triangular pediment. The axis of the planning structure is the stairwell in the center of the building. The style of massive forms is defined by modernized motifs of medieval architecture. In later years, the building was significantly rebuilt.

Residential three-story apartment building (1904-1905; architect Alfred Zachariewicz [project bureau of the building company of Jozef Sosnowski and Alfred Zachariewicz]). Later the building was adapted as a medical establishment.  Entrance to the yard is on the right side. The building is rectangular in its layout with a risalit extruding to the yard. The staircase is located in the center of the building. This is a late Historicist Neo-Gothic building with Art Nouveau elements.

A residential four-story apartment building (1910-1911; Ivan Levynsky architectural bureau). The building is L-shaped and has a cut corner. An oriel window protrudes on the corner; it is crowned with a high helmet-shaped cupola. The facades are segmented with cornices and pilasters that finish with attics. The staircase is adjacent to the corner of the inner yard. This is an example of the early twentieth-century Neoclassicism.

This apartment house (1911-1912; Ivan Levynsky architectural bureau [co-designed by Ivan Levynsky, Witold Minkiewicz and/or Wladyslaw Derdacki?]) is an example of the early twentieth-century Neoclassicism. This four-story building has two wings located at a sharp angle to each other, with a corner risalit protruding between them. The façades are topped with triangular pediments. A polygon-shaped staircase is the center of the floor plan. The architects paid special attention to small forms such as rotunda in the garden in front of the main façade. 

This two-story family villa (1904-1905; architect Alfred Zachariewicz [project bureau of Josef Sosnowski and Alfred Zachariewicz building company]) is located as a free standing house surrounded by flowerbeds and a garden. Rectangular floor layout is enlivened with protrusions of buttresses and risalits. The architectural composition of the main facade is emphasized by the sharp silhouettes of triangular steeples and cornices built at different height. The building’s architecture has features of Zakopane style combined with standard Secession vocabulary. Carved wooden details are the dominant in the villa's decoration.

A residential two-story single-family home-villa (1889-1890; co-authored by Julian Zachariewicz and Ivan Levynsky). The building is a middle section of the group which includes buildings no. 4 and 8 on Kolberga Street. These three villas have identical flowerbeds in front and joint space of courtyard gardens inside the quarter. The building is rectangular in floorplan. Its façade with a buttress in the center is accentuated with a trapezium-shaped pediment. Neo-romantic trand of late Historicist architecture.

A residential single-family home-villa (1889-1890; co-authored by Julian Zachariewicz and Ivan Levynsky). The villa is a component of a building complex created by three buildings on Kolberga Street 4, 6 and 8. These three villas have identical flowerbeds in front and joint space of courtyard gardens inside the quarter. Building No. 4 is rectangular in floorplan, with buttresses protruding along its perimeter and on the sides of the tower covered with a high tent-shaped roof. This is an example of Neo-Romantic trend of late Historicist architecture. The villa was rebuilt in the second half of the twentieth century.

The former villa of architect Ludwik Baldwin-Ramułt, built under his own design in 1890, is one of typical examples of Lviv’s Neo-Gothic architecture with some picturesque style elements. The building is an architectural monument of local significance (protection number 74). Today, the ground floor and the second floor are occupied by residential apartments while there are cellars as well as a beauty salon and a tattoo parlor on the basement floor.

A residential single-family home-villa (1889-1890; co-authored by Julian Zachariewicz and Ivan Levynsky). L-shaped building is a corner component of the group-complex which also includes buildings no. 4 and 8 on Kolberga Street. The villa has two floors with a mansard, asymmetrically located risalits, and a tower that once had a high marquee-shaped roof. This is an example of Neo-Romantic trend of late Historicist architecture. The villa was rebuilt in the second half of the twentieth century.

The former villa of Karol Dziadoń Dzieliński, was built in 1903-1906 by the Jan Lewiński company under a project designed by Alfred Zachariewicz. It is a bright example of Romantic architecture, it stands out by its unplastered red brick façades. It is an architectural monument of local significance no. 116.

A single-family building–villa (1890- 1891, co-designed by Julian Zachariewicz and Ivan Levynskyi). The building is a part of an architectural ensemble of the north-eastern section of Kastelivka district which consists entirely of villas. The building was designed as a free standing house surrounded by a garden. It has a symmetrical floor plan, a high tent-shaped roof with carved consoles was once an integral part of the building’s architecture. The villa was reconstructed in the second half of the twentieth century. The elements of authentic ceramic decor have been preserved on the facades.

A residential apartment building (1912-1913; architects I. Kendzerski and A. Opolski). This corner four-story stone building is separated from the street with a small garden in front of its façade. The building is distinguished by an impressive roof silhouette (in particular, with a high corner construction in the shape of a helmet) and a trapeze-shaped pediment. It has a V-shaped plan with diagonal location of the staircase. The inner floor plan is of a section type. This is an example of early twentieth-century Neoclassicism with modernist influences, demonstrating the adherence to the German architectural school.

This three-story apartment building (1897-1898; architect Karol Boublik) was constructed with a deviation from the street regulation line. High Neo-Baroque attics dominate the façade. The entrance and the staircase are located in the center of the T-shaped construction plan.  This building forms an integral block with the neighboring house no. 22. The two buildings have identical decoration. This is an example of late Historicist architecture (Neo-Baroque).

This single family villa (1890-1891; architects Julian Zachariewicz and Ivan Levynsky) is a component of the architectural ensemble of the north-eastern quarter of Kastelivka district which consisted entirely of single-family mansions. The villa has an adjacent garden plot. The internal floor layout is symmetric; the center of its structure is the central hall with an exit to loggia. In the twentieth century the villa was speared reconstruction and was therefore preserved better than the other similar Kastelivka villas. In particular, the construction of a high roof and original facade decoration such as ceramic tiles and carved details have been preserved.

This four-story apartment building (1911-1912; Ivan Levynsky architectural bureau) forms an ensemble with the neighboring house no. 67 on Kotliarevskogo Street. In apartment sections, internal planning is organized according to the two-tract principle. This is an example of the early twentieth-century Neoclassicism.

This is a corner three-story apartment building (1906-1907; architect Alfred Zachariewicz, project bureau of Josef Sosnowski and Alfred Zachariewicz building company) is decorated with parabolic-shaped pediments. The L-shaped building has a cut corner. The entrance is located on Nechuia-Levytskogo Street; the staircase is arranged near the corner of the inner courtyard. This is an example of Art Nouveau architecture.

This corner L-shaped apartment house (1897-1898; architects Julian Zachariewicz and Ivan Levynsky) is part of an architectural complex of buildings consisting of three apartment houses (other components of the group are buildings no. 7 and 9 on Generala Chuprynky). It has façades of the “curtain” style and is separated from the pavement with a strip of the garden. This is an example of the late nineteenth-century Historicism, predominantly Neo-Baroque.

Residential four-story apartment building (1908-1909; architect-constructor Jozef Piatkowski). The center of the plan is a spacious staircase and an elongated corridor that divides the inner premises into two tracts. The building features stylistic elements of the early twentieth-century Neoclassicism, which reveal the influence of German architectural school. Presently (2009) the building is used by a university.

The O. Dovzhenko Cinema is located in the common public center of the residential district of Sykhiv. It was built in 1987 according to an individual project based on the typical functional design. The project was drawn up by a group of authors that consisted of architects Anatoliy Vashchak, Vasyl Kamenshchyk, Yevheniya Minkova and constructors M. Bachynskyi and Y. Khrobak. Considering its style features, the building belongs to the modernist style.