Vul. Doroshenka, 22 – resedential building ID: 721

A residential building in the perimeter development of the street, with a slight indentation from the red line. Built according to a 1925 design by architect Solomon Keil for Bernard Thein. A fourth floor was added according to a design by architect Józef Awin.

Architecture

Built in traditional Modernist style. Four-story, brick, plastered, complex in layout, with an inner courtyard. The interior layout is sectional. The composition of the main facade is symmetrical, with the central part open at the third and fourth floors. The first and second floors are decorated with linear rustication. The first floor is separated from the second by a profiled cornice, and the second from the third by a profiled tie. The windows of the building have profiled frames, with baluster inserts under the windows of the second floor and linear cornices above the windows of the third floor. On the third floor, there is a balcony with a molded balustrade on massive brackets, and on the fourth floor, there are three balconies with wrought-iron railings decorated with acanthus leaves. Above the profiled cornice, there is a balustrade made of decorative balusters.

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    Petra Doroshenka Street lies between Svobody Boulevard and Bandery Street. Its previous names were: Sykstuska (or Sixtuska Gasse up to 1938), Obrony Lwowa (1938-1940), Sykstusstrasse (1941-1944), and Zhovtneva (1940, 1944-1992). This street arose in place of a road that once led from the medieval city walls to the estate of Erasm Sikst/Erazm Sykst, mayor of Lviv in the early seventeenth century and famous medical doctor. In the early twentieth century, the Historicist rental houses were partly replaced by Jugendstil buildings, and later Constructivist ones. 1894 saw an electric tram line being laid in the lower part of the street, leading from the Central Train Station to the Hetmanski Bulwarks, where it forked, leading to the Galician County Fair in Sofijówka, and through the Rynok Square to Lychakiv/Łyczaków. In November 1918 bitter fighting went on for the building of the Main Post Office between Ukrainian and Polish troops.
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People

Józef Awin – (1883, Lviv — 1942, Lviv, Yanivsky concentration camp) was an engineer, architect, restorer, photographer, graphic artist, painter and watercolorist, historian and theorist of art, collector. Awin designed a project for the construction of the 4th floor of this building in the 1930s.

Sources

Державний архів Львівської області (ДАЛО) 2/1/3741.

Author(s): Khrystyna Kharchuk

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