Resursa Obywatelska, Arts centre in Radom, Poland
Resursa Obywatelska is a single-storey Neoclassical building with a two-storey central section topped by a triangular pediment showing a relief of Caritas with three children. The facade is crowned by statues of the muses Thalia, Melpomene and Euterpe, and the building has 13 window axes. It now serves as the Ośrodek Kultury i Sztuki "Resursa Obywatelska".
The Radom district welfare council commissioned the building in 1850 to fund St. Kazimierz's Hospital; Ludwik Radziszewski designed it, and it was erected in 1851–1852 on hospital land. The Resursa Obywatelska society, founded in 1829, rented it until 1914, except 1861–1867 when Tsarist authorities suspended the society and General Alexander Uschakow used the building. In 1921 it passed to the hospital union, which converted the hall for the Teatr Rozmaitości from 1922.
The name comes from the Resursa Obywatelska, a citizens' society founded in 1829, which rented the building until 1914. After it returned, masked balls, concerts, theatre performances and lectures were held here. Since 1922 the auditorium has served the Teatr Rozmaitości, and from 1955 to 1990 the cinemas Przyjaźń and Pokolenie operated in the building.
The building stands at ulica Malczewskiego 16, northwest of Radom's city centre, on the former Warsaw Street. In front of it, on the square, are the Jacek Malczewski monument, unveiled on 19 September 1985, and one surviving Dąb Wolności oak planted in 1919. The neighbouring former St Alexander hospital, closed in 2002, now houses a hotel.
The building's name comes from the Resursa Obywatelska, a citizens' society founded in 1829 that rented the house until 1914. During the January Uprising, General Alexander Kleonakowitsch Uschakow set up his office here from 1861 to 1867 and quartered two companies of an infantry regiment in the ballroom.
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