Type Tenement Completed 1904 Opened 1904 Construction started 1903 | Country Poland Client Carl Rose Floors 5 | |
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Architectural style Eclecticism & elements from Art Nouveau Location Gdanska street 51, Bydgoszcz, Poland Similar Theonia Reichhardt House in, Julius Grey house in Bydgoszcz, Alexander Timm House, Emil Bernhardt tenement | ||
The Carl Rose Tenement is a tenement in downtown Bydgoszcz. The building stands on western side of Gdańska Street at N°51, between streets Śniadecki and Cieszkowski.
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History
The edifice has been built in 1903-1904, according to the project owner, architect Carl Rose. Its initial address was Danzigerstaße 29. Carl Rose was born on December 11, 1864 in Barth, Germany. He has attended high school in Stralsund. In 1882, he began apprenticeship in Bromberg in the company of Albert Rose his uncle, a master mason in the city since 1866. For further education he traveled to Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Later, he worked as a construction manager in the construction of government buildings in Berlin.
In September 1890, Rose returned to Bydgoszcz to take over the company his defunct uncle. He took part to the construction of the house in the courtyard of Emil Bernhardt tenement in Bydgoszcz. Professionally, he was active in Bromberg at least until 1920. As of 7 June 1898, he belonged to the masonic lodge "Janus" in Bydgoszcz.
Interwar period
After World War I, the tenement was the propriety of Roman Lisiecki from Żnin. In the building in July 1926, next to cafe "Kawiarni Wiejskiej" opened an "Orbis" agency, which sold train tickets home and abroad. Also in 1926, Zygmunt Grabowski from Warsaw opened "Zygmunt", a barber salon and a shop selling perfumes and cosmetics.