MERMAID STATUTE MADE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE

 

WITH A VIEW OF KRASIŃSKI PALACE

OWL

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.