Julius Grey House
| Julius Grey house in Bydgoszcz | |
|---|---|
Polish: Kamienica Juliusa Greya w Bydgoszczy | |
 View from Gdanska street | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Tenement |
| Architectural style | Eclecticism |
| Location | Gdańska street 35, Bydgoszcz, Poland |
| Country | Poland |
| Coordinates | 53°7′40″N 18°0′18″E / 53.12778°N 18.00500°E |
| Completed | 1887 |
| Renovated | 1909 |
| Client | Julius Grey |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 3 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Hermann Lewandowski (1887) & Rudolf Kern (1909) |
The Julius Grey house is a historical building in downtown Bydgoszcz, at Gdanska Street 35.
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 Danzigerstraße 23[2]
Juilius Grey decided to have this place rebuilt and asked, in 1887, master builder Hermann Lewandowski, living at Louisenstrasse 13 (now Hetmanska street) to manage the project. The same Lewandowski will later support the building of the grand edifice at Plac Wolności 1.
In 1909, the house has been rebuilt, designed by Rudolf Kern. This architect had already realized several edifices renovation in Bromberg:
- Tenement at Gdanska street 5 in the same year;
- Houses in Gdanska street (at 66-68, 67 & 158);
- Cieszkowskiego Street 10 in 1902-1903.
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 Freedom Square 1, moved to the former premises of the Grey family, at Gdanska 35, 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.
Gallery
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Advertisement for Grey family pastry shop in 1925 -
Enlarge view from Gdanska street, showing part of neighbouring facade of house at Gdanska street 33 -
Pediment with woman figure
See also
- Bydgoszcz
- Gdanska Street in Bydgoszcz
- Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Downtown district in Bydgoszcz
- Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Rudolf Kern
References
- ^ "names". Wohnungs-Anzeiger nebst Adress- und Geschäfts-Handbuch für Bromberg und Umgebung : auf das Jahr 1883. Bromberg: Mittler. 1883. p. 36.
- ^ "names". Wohnungs-Anzeiger nebst Adress- und Geschäfts-Handbuch für die Stadt Bromberg und Umgebung : auf das Jahr 1872. Bromberg: Mittler. 1872. p. 21.
- ^ Zielazna, Jolanta (17 October 2012). "Najlepsza kawa i lody w Bydgoszczy? Tylko "u Hassa"". pomorska.pl. pomorska.pl. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
