Published: 2025-12-28

The tenement building 26 (32) Polna Street in Warsaw — an unknown work by Ludwik Panczakiewicz

Piotr Kilanowski
Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
Section: Studies and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM73.2025.3.004

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present and characterise the architecture of the tenement building at 26 (32) Polna Street in Warsaw in the context of its previously unknown architectural design, discovered in a private collection. An analysis of the plans made
it possible to identify the building’s previously unidentified designer — architect Ludwik
Panczakiewicz — as well as to reconstruct the features originally envisaged at the
design stage, thereby indirectly enabling their comparison with those ultimately implemented. This has contributed both to expanding our knowledge of the oeuvre and design practice of the prominent Warsaw architect before 1914, and to deepening our
understanding of the architecture and subsequent history of the townhouse, which stood out within the city’s architectural landscape before the First World War.

Keywords:

architecture, Warsaw, townhouse, tenement building, Ludwik Panczakiewicz, Jan Fruziński, Jan Siudecki

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Kilanowski, P. (2025). The tenement building 26 (32) Polna Street in Warsaw — an unknown work by Ludwik Panczakiewicz. Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 73(3), 389–408. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM73.2025.3.004

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