Julius Grey House

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Julius Grey house in Bydgoszcz
Polish: Kamienica Juliusa Greya w Bydgoszczy
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View from Gdanska street
Julius Grey House
General information
Type Tenement
Architectural style Eclecticism
Location35 Gdańska street, Bydgoszcz, Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
CountryPoland
Coordinates 53°7′40″N18°0′18″E / 53.12778°N 18.00500°E / 53.12778; 18.00500
Completed1887
Renovated1909
ClientJulius Grey
Technical details
Floor count3
Design and construction
ArchitectHermann Lewandowski (1887) & Rudolf Kern (1909)

The Julius Grey house is a historical building in downtown Bydgoszcz, at 35 Gdanska Street.

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Location

The building stands on the west side of Gdańska Street between Dworcowa and Śniadeckich streets.

History

Origins

The investor was Julius Grey, a baker, which ran there a bakery then a confectionery factory in 1883. [1] At this time, the address was 23 Danzigerstraße [2]

Juilius Grey decided to have this place rebuilt and asked, in 1887, master builder Hermann Lewandowski, living at 13 Louisenstrasse (now Hetmanska street) to manage the project. The same Lewandowski will later support the building of the grand edifice at 1 Plac Wolności.

In 1909, the house has been rebuilt, designed by Rudolf Kern. This architect had already realized several edifices renovation in Bromberg:

Pastry shop

During interwar period, the Grey family ran on the groung floor a pastry shop (Polish : Cukiernia), see advertisement picture in the gallery), which was famous for the quality of its cakes.

Stanislaw Hass, a pastry chef who had been running café Cristal at 1 Freedom Square, moved to the former premises of the Grey family, at 35 Gdanska st., where part of the Grey's equipment and stocks were still available. Until 2003, the "Cristal" cafe with its typical Art Nouveau décor has been located here, even when the Hass family moved the pastry in the 1960s. [3]

Architecture

The building was built in the style of Eclecticism using forms of German Historicism.

The edifice is remarkable by two symmetric rounded shape balconies with forged railings: they both enclose the large bay window standing above the entrance gate.

Window pediments are decorated with figure of a woman head.

See also

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References

  1. "names". Wohnungs-Anzeiger nebst Adress- und Geschäfts-Handbuch für Bromberg und Umgebung : auf das Jahr 1883. Bromberg: Mittler. 1883. p. 36.
  2. "names". Wohnungs-Anzeiger nebst Adress- und Geschäfts-Handbuch für die Stadt Bromberg und Umgebung : auf das Jahr 1872. Bromberg: Mittler. 1872. p. 21.
  3. Zielazna, Jolanta (17 October 2012). "Najlepsza kawa i lody w Bydgoszczy? Tylko "u Hassa"". pomorska.pl. pomorska.pl. Retrieved 6 May 2017.

Bibliography

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Facade panorama neighbouring house at Gdanska street 35