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Forgotten Galicia

Forgotten Galicia

Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire

Tag: Annapolis

Hitching Posts in Annapolis

September 8, 2014
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August 27, 2014

Antique Iron Fences in Annapolis

Annapolis has it’s fair share of antique iron fences. Like in Chicago and Winnetka, there are many fences made by The Stewar Iron Works, formely the largest iron fence maker in the world. The Stewart Iron Works The Stewart Iron Works, 3rd & Culvert St, Cincinnati, O *** G. Krug […]

August 8, 2014

Merchants’ Hoisting Beams in Annapolis

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries warehouses were built near the waterfront in Annapolis. They were used both to store goods coming into town from ships out in the Chesapeake Bay as well as to store goods like tobacco which were shipped to England. Some of these buildings have […]

July 31, 2014

Fire Marks in Annapolis

When I was in Annapolis I saw some oval plaques with images of trees, eagles, engines, etc. on some of the old buildings. I thought they were something exclusive to Annapolis, but when I returned to my suburb I found a couple of them there and realized it was something […]

June 26, 2014

Anchor Plates in Annapolis

In Annapolis the vast majority of anchor plates – or in this case I should use the term “masonry stars” – are star shaped. Many buildings from the city are from the eigteenth and nineteenth centuries and therefore there is a high concentration of them. And here is a lovely anchor-shaped anchor plate

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Szymon Małochleb’s Art Nouveau-style residence, Szymon Małochleb’s Art Nouveau-style residence, built between 1912 and 1913 and designed by Jan Kajpert and Aleksander Osten, stands out for its richly detailed sculptural decoration by Teobald Orkasiewicz. On the pediment is a relief of Tadeusz Kościuszko, leader of the Polish Uprising of 1794, while above the gateway is "The Beating of Scythes," inspired by a well-known work by Polish painter Artur Grottger.
Adjacent to the main house, a one-story factory building was constructed during the same time. In the interwar years, it housed Małochleb’s water pump factory, which specialized in digging, drilling, repairing, and cleaning various types of wells.
From 1913 to 1927, Teobald Orkasiewicz, the artist behind the building’s sculptural elements, lived and worked on the premises.
In the 1940s–1950s, the premises housed the Driller cooperative of the Lviv Regional Metalworkers’ Union, which specialized in installing and repairing water standpipes, drilling wells of various depths, and producing various agricultural tools.
In 1997, sculptor Stanislav Melnychuk restored a statue of the Virgin Mary, which now adorns the building’s courtyard.

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Wojciech Wentz Villa, built in 1907, designed by a Wojciech Wentz Villa, built in 1907, designed by architect Ludwik Weltze. The first owner was Wojciech Wentz, a police advisor. In the early 1920s, the property passed to Zygmunt Radzyminski (1843–1928), a Polish historian and renowned researcher of genealogy and heraldry. The villa’s final owner before the Soviet era was Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895–1978), a prominent Polish philologist and linguist. From 1926 to 1946, he resided in the villa while serving as head of the departments of Indo-European linguistics and Romance philology at Lviv University.

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Last June, I took a walk through my favorite neigh Last June, I took a walk through my favorite neighborhood to show an acquaintance some of Lviv’s finest architectural gems. We stopped near the former Ludwik Heller Villa to admire and photograph the beautiful rose garden set against a backdrop of carved wooden details—a radiant sun and folk motifs inspired by the Podhale region’s mountain architecture. These elements reflect the Zakopane Style, which emerged in southern Poland but found expression across Galicia, including here in Lviv.

Little did I know that just three months later, the villa would be damaged in a russian missile attack on the city. The roof, in particular, was severely affected and had to be completely replaced.

This June, I returned to the villa once again to admire the flowers and intricate architectural details—camera in hand, as before. But the experience is now different. Though the windows have been replaced, and the roof is undergoing restoration, the neighborhood no longer feels quite the same to me.

Soundtrack: The English folk song "Bonny Bunch of Roses," which recalls the time "Moscow was blazing" during Napoleon’s invasion—an image we are eager to see repeated.

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Golden hour | Lviv center | Constitution Day | Jun Golden hour | Lviv center | Constitution Day | June 28

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