Mr and Ms Ziml’s and Miss Knoll’s Tenement House

 

In the basement, there was a common laundry room with concrete paving, a drying room (also with concrete paving), a storage cubicle, a pantry, a room with central heating, and a studio apartment with a kitchen, a pantry, a hall, and a bathroom. The ground floor consisted of one apartment with a kitchen, a pantry, a bathroom, a toilet, and two rooms. There was also an apartment with a hall, a bathroom and a living kitchen. Josef Novák had his own office in this part of the house, which consisted of two working areas, a toilet, a storage room, and a built-in wardrobe. On the first floor, there were two apartments, each with a kitchen, two rooms with windows facing the street, a hallway, a pantry, a balcony facing the courtyard, a bathroom, a toilet, and two closets. The second and third floors had the same layout; on the third floor, however, there was an entrance to the roof opposite the staircase. 

 

The façade of the house was designed in a purist way, with the basement windows facing the street. This part of the façade was covered with glazed tiles in a pea-green tone, which were found on the upper floors of the house, as well as the jambs (soffits) of the windows. There was also a flagpole at the top of the façade. 

 

The building was constructed as a brick-lined reinforced concrete frame. The house had a staircase that was anchored into the walls and into the reinforced concrete parts of the house. It was equipped with a sewerage system, which led to the municipal sewer. The house was in use from 1 August 1937.

 

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