Dwelling House (the Armenian one)

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Dwelling House (Armenian), the XIV-XIX centuries. Preservation Number #1631 | Foto
8 Pol's'kyi Rynok Sq.

The strip was formed in the XIV century. In this period it was fixed by stone boundary walls. Its size was 8,1�59 m. In the XIV-XV centuries, the part of the strip, bordering on the square, was built up by the small stone house. The house on the ground floor consisted of one vaulted living lodgement, its size was about 7x4 m, the first floor was mansard. The basement, deepened only on semi-tier, stepped over the line of the western front. At the end of the XV and XVI centuries, the house was widened with the outhouse on the south of the hallway, that occupied the space between its initial size and the wall. The length of the house in the eastern direction increased to 15-20 m. At the end of the XVII century, it was partly destroyed. In 1735, it was rebuilt. In the XIX century, it got the classicistical ornament in the form of pilasters and profiled figured liners. During the Great War the house was damaged. In the post-war period it was restored. The western front was plastered, apetures were decorated with right-angled liners, in the northern wall there were also apentures.
The house was stone, three-storeyed, right-angled. Some of the partitions were made of bricks. The basement and partialy the ground floor were covered with torispherical vaults with strikings, coverings of the other storeys were flat and made of the reinforced concrete ribbed slabs, which were on the wooden beams. In plan the building has kept the structure of the XVIII century: in the eastern part there is a through-hallway, the northern part is formed by the lengthwise line of lodgements and the stairwell. The building is plastered, the ornament is represented by later liners. On the western front, between the ground and the first floor the white-stone slab with the inscription "According to the permission in 1735 this building was built again by Sepher Ovanesovych".
The monument defines the medieval building up of the main city square.

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THE ARMENIAN DWELLING HOUSE, the �VII - XX centuries.
8 Pol's'kyi Rynok Sq.
It is situated in the eastern part of Central (Rynkova) Square. It is built in the houses of later times on the left and right (6 and 10 Central Sq.). It is stone, three-storied, with large basements, of mixed architectural style (Medieval Baroque, Armenian Order, Russian Classicism).
It was built in the first half of the �VII century as a small, stone, one-storied house that belonged to the member of the local Town Council, Yan Klochovych. According to descriptions of 1700, the house belonged to a priest. In 1735, the house was thoroughly rebuilt into a two-storied one (the Armenian architecture in combination with local traditions) by Kamyanets'kyi Armenian merchant, Sefer �vansovych. In the second half of the �VIII century, the house was bought by Kazymir Lipins'kyi, the Podilian applicator (the chairman of the Boundary Court), politician, opposition leader of the Bars'ka conference of 1763-1772. From the end of the �V� century, the house passed into the ownership of well-off merchant Joseph Vernyts'kyi. According to the inventory of the building of that time, there were soft furniture and mirrrors in the living rooms, some boxes with table silver, barrels with honey, the Hungarian vine, vodka and beer for selling in the cellars. In the middle of the XIX century, a new owner, Fedir Komarnyts'kyi, overbuilt the second floor, changed outward form of the house. At the beginning of the XX century, there was a shop (the ground floor) along with the dwelling rooms there. In the 20's, the rooms were reequiped into communal flats and were given to working people. On the first days of the war (1941) the house was damaged from the raids of fascist air force. In the 50 - 80's, it was used as a hostel of the weaving-mill. Today, the house, as a monument of architecture and building up of the city of 300 years remoteness, is under restoration and as a result it will become a dwelling house.
In the front of the building there is a white stone plate built-in in the wall under the balcony (1735 ) with an inscription in Polish, narrating �f building of the house by S. �vansovych.
Sources and literature:
�� . �� , 8. /�� /, //"�� " /��-��/. - 1935. - 14 ��.
Prusiewicz A.Kamieniec-Podolski.Szkic historyczno-topograficzny. - Wilno. - 1915. - C. 12 - l3.
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ENCLOSURE
The text on the memorial plate:
"In the year 1735 this building was newbuilt by Sepher Ovansovych".

Translated by Yana Anufriyeva
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