Type Tenement Floor count 5 Floors 5 Groundbreaking 1912 | Completed 1913 Opened 1913 Architectural style Modern architecture Architect Paul Sellner | |
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Location Gdanska Street 95, Bydgoszcz, Poland Similar Theonia Reichhardt House in, Julius Grey house in Bydgoszcz, Alexander Timm House, Hugo Hecht tenement | ||
Tenement at Gdanska street 95 is a habitation building located at Gdańska Street N°95, in Bydgoszcz.
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Location
The building stands on the western side of Gdańska Street, between Chocimska street and Świętojańska street.
It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street:
History
The house was built in 1912-1913, on a design by Bydgoszcz's architect Paul Sellner. At the time, the address was "Danzigerstrasse 54, Bromberg.
In 1914, Robert Schulz set up a restaurant on the ground floor until 1920.
Architecture
Tenement presents an early modernist style.
The three-storey avant-corps are decorated with laurel wreaths and stylized vases and flowers low-reliefs. A dissymetry is created by balconies on the right side and logias on the opposite side. Inside, the building has got a preserved elevator with a wrought metal door.
Paul Sellner, the architect, has been a student of Karl Bergner. In 1904, he opened his own architectural study office in Bydgoszcz, where he stayed at least until 1922. In Bydgoszcz Paul Sellner designed also another habitation house at Świętojańska Street 2, (intersection with Gdanska Street) in 1911-1912.