House moved from Mazowiecka 47

Piotrkowska 282

Near the church in Łódź City Culture Park, there is a second house moved there from Mazowiecka street in the Grembach district. It was built around the same time as the first one, so around the turn of the 20^th century. Just like the two-storey brown building from Mazowiecka 61 street, it was intended as labourer housing. However, due to its small original size, it could only accommodate one or two families. The building was occupied until the end of the last century. As the number of residents increased, the interior would be split into more apartments.

The building’s façade of six windows features a solution that is quite rare for Łódź architecture – the entrance is placed off-centre. This concept is unusual because both on the front and back of the building there are large mansards placed symmetrically in the middle of the gable roof. The design hinges on a framed construction, wood beam ceilings, and outer brick walls. Outer clapboard walls are painted ochre, as was discovered during renovation.

There is very little historical wooden architecture left in the old Grembach area. From the former working-class district, two rows of one-storey family buildings (the so-called famuła buildings) were preserved. These buildings feature red brick walls and were constructed after Juliusz Kunitzer passed away, when the factory was taken over by the English in 1904.