Mokotowska Street, Warsaw

[3] The section between Triple Cross Square and Wilcza was occupied by fifteen timber houses, two small palatial mansions and three tenements, however, the southern end comprised vegetable gardens, orchards, and empty allotments.

[6] When Warsaw became part of Congress Poland, the number of brick dwellings increased; in 1829, an inn was constructed where the Church of the Holiest Saviour now stands and by the 1820s Mokotowska was also paved with cobblestones in an attempt to improve mobility.

[10] The building at Mokotowska 48 dating to 1860 hosted two important Polish personalities of the 19th century – writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and naturalist Tytus Chałubiński.

[12] Although Mokotowska was not spared from considerable damage and partial destruction in the war, much of its historic character remained and it hosts some of the finest examples of pre-war architecture in Warsaw, along with the intersecting Wilcza Street and other areas of South Downtown.

[13] Threatened by new urban planning under the Polish People's Republic, it was listed in the Registry of Cultural Property as a heritage place in 1965 to protect it from further alterations.

View of Mokotowska before 1939.
Saviour Square and the junction with Mokotowska (centre-left); the central tenement was the tallest in Warsaw at the time of its completion in 1910.