Villa Dom Julii in Sanok, Protected villa in Sanok, Poland
Villa Dom Julii is a villa-style tenement house in Sanok, built by the builder Władysław Chomiak and completed in 1924. It stands next to a 19th-century roadside chapel of the Bogdów family, and across the street is the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Władysław Chomiak, a Sanok builder and construction entrepreneur, first put up a wooden house on the plot and then completed this villa-style tenement in 1924. In the 1930s it carried house number 38. After World War II it housed an emergency ambulance station before renovation, and it was entered in the voivodeship register of monuments in 2000.
The name comes from Julia, the youngest daughter of builder Władysław Chomiak, who completed the house in 1924. During the German occupation Walerian Czykiel lived here with his wife Jadwiga and held secret teaching lessons; the poet Janusz Szuber described this in his 2005 book "Mojość".
The villa stands in Sanok's centre, next to a 19th-century roadside chapel of the Bogdów family and opposite the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary. It now operates as a hotel, so visitors can step inside as guests rather than sightseers. Look for shell and bullet marks on the facade, left by wartime damage and kept for decades after 1945.
On 19 September 1999, during renovation work by the owners, part of the building slipped and it was declared at risk of collapse. The 19th-century roadside chapel beside it, built by the Bogdów family with an image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, is also entered in Sanok's municipal register of monuments.
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