Stefan Wierusz Niemojowskiwas Lemberg's renowned industrialist, and the owner of paper factory (initially on Marian Square 8, then on Teatralna, 25, in Skarbek Theatre, and starting from 1914 on Asnyka, 9, with a shop in the famous Pasaż Mikolasza). Niemojowski received permission to run a printhouse at his factory in 1903. The factory produced paper sheets, envelopes, filters for cigarettes and postcards. For the latter he cooperated with the best local fotographers such as Dawid Mazur i Teodozy Bahrynowicz.
After the World War I the factory was moved to Bielsk (now Bielsko-Biala) and join stock company, with representative, dr. Tadeusz Gutkowski remaining in Lemberg, address Spółdzielcza 4 (now Kooperatyvna Street 4).
This
three-storied residential townhouse was built in
1905 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,
an architectural monument of local significance (protection
number M-9). Now the house
is occupied by the office of the public prosecutor of Lviv and
by the Lviv state institute of
municipal construction projecting "Lvivpromkomunbud".
The building, which is now occupied by the Maria
Zankovetska Theater, was built in 1837-1842 as the theater of count Stanisław
Skarbek's foundation. The project of the building was designed by Ludwig Pichl,
a Viennese architect, its construction was managed by the Lviv city architect,
Johann Salzmann. Stylistically, the building is a typical example of the late Neoclassicism
in the version of the Viennese school of architecture. The theater building is
one of the largest in Europe, it is an architectural monument of national
significance, protection number 1286.
