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POWĄZKOWSKA 44

Not too long ago Powązkowska 44 was part of an army complex which included military barracks, now it's mainly apartment buildings, yet you can still see some 'old' Warsaw in this region. The red bricked tenement built in 1870 is the only remaining fragment of the Russian military barracks. The house was meant to accommodate up to ten officers, and is currently listed for sale on the market. The new owner will be expected to maintain and repair the monument (Nr. 10518 0021119 in the 'register of monuments' document). The building it self is not richly decorated. The only decorations are unique sheltered doors and a decorative way of the brick layout. On the left side of the building, onlooking from Powązkowska, there are storerooms, and the way to the front entrance is lined with cobblestones. The location of this villa among modern buildings as well as the vegetation around it, truly make it a real gem.

MERMAID FROM HOŻA 56

CITY IN THE FOG

John Paul II - cook

One of a series of reliefs "The Pope for everyone" by Tubizm Art .

MERMAID ON OVERHEAD LINE

NATHAN MORGENSTERN'S TENEMENT

Nathan Morgenstern’s tenement located at Sienkiewicza 4 street was designed by architects Wacław Heppen and Józef N. Czerwiński. This seven-storey building was built in the years 1911-1912 , in the style of early modernism inspired by French style .

As a result of the devastation during the war the tenement lost its last floor (only a balcony survived in the left corner of the base of the building).

In flats located on other levels there are original moldings , hardwood floors and tiled stoves. Also staircases have their original decor - railings, doors, marble and wooden stairs. In the courtyard you can see a chapel of Our Lady. In February 2014 , the building and the property area was entered into the register of monuments.

Currently, the tenement is being renovated: the walls around the courtyard are being plastered. The facade of the building still awaits its turn.

The neighborhood of a modern glass building makes it a very attractive location for photographers. Just go to the yard, look up, and see a beautiful house dominated by modern building.

MERMAID STATUTE MADE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE

 

WITH A VIEW OF KRASIŃSKI PALACE

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CHURCH OF ST. ELECTRICITY

I'M GONNA MISS YOU

WITH A VIEW OF...ELVIS

FRIEDBERG'S VILLA

Residents of the distric Mokotów know the abandoned house at Sułkowicka 3 street very well. Friedberg’s Villa is commonly called Red Villa and was built in the years 1925 – 1928. This four-storey house is an example of Warsaw modernism inspired by the Italian architecture.

The first owner of the building was a Jewish merchant and philanthropist Michael Friedberg - during the occupation he was relocated to the ghetto (he was a director of a hospital). After the war the villa with its garden became government property. In the early post-war years it was the quarters of NKVD – the Soviet secret police. 

Today the villa is owned by a private developer, but despite that fact it became a ruin. In 2013, two bloggers found documents on the 2nd floor of the villa. Today these previously unknown files about the National Armed Forces (NSZ) are kept in the Central Archives of Modern Records in Warsaw.