Staszica and Paderewskiego Streets, Bydgoszcz

Many of the buildings along this axis are either registered on the Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, or part of a historical ensemble of Eclectic and Art Nouveau architecture in Bydgoszcz.

The concept of this new area was based on a rectangular grid of streets (Gdańska, Adam Mickiewicz Alley, Józef Weyssenhoff Square, Niemcewicza and Chodkiewicza), all located within city boundaries.

This district was also convenient by the proximity of the newly built facilities (administrative and educational center), main railway station.

Current name comes from Stanisław Staszic (1755–1826), a leading figure of the Polish Enlightenment: a Catholic priest, philosopher, geologist, writer, poet, translator and statesman.

Tenement at 1 1902–1903[11] Eclecticism At its construction, the address was Braesicke Straße 2: house landlord was Albert Sawallich, first evangelical sexton.

Stripped from many original details but a facade cartouche, the elevation still display two bay windows, and a series of dormers topped by finials.

Lieutenant Leszek Biały square This green area is what is left from the urban plan developed in the 1910s by German architect Josef Stübben and called the Sielanka estate (Idyll).

[13] However, the entire scheme was never achieved: the nest in the tripod was supposed to be crowned with the Piast eagle, which was considered by the communist authorities to be too similar to the symbols used during WWII by the Polish Armed Forces in the West.

[17] Under the code name Jakub, he was arrested in February 1945 by members of soviet controlled Ministry of Public Security and was murdered during interrogations on 3 March 1945.

[19] Today, it is part of the network of lodgings offered to Music school students in Bydgoszcz, together with neighbouring building at Nr.7 (at the corner with Kołłątaja street).

[20] The building displays a symmetric array of loggias, on both sides of a slight round bay window topped with a wattle and daub gable.

[22] In this building lived one of the first sponsor of the BSM project, Teofil Gackowski[23] The elevation is distinctive from others in the street by the presence of a triangular bay window topped by a tented roof.

Today, it is part of the network of Bydgoszcz Academy of Music teaching buildings, all located downtown; the tenement includes as well a dormitory.

[26] Today the building houses two clinics, Śródmieście (Downtown, 445m2) and Akademicka (Academic, 312m2), and two specialist medical offices for individuals.

[27] Copernicanum building, at 1 Kopernika Street Registered on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Heritage list Nr.601363, reg.A/784 (5 May 1992)[21] 1903–1906, by Carl Zaar and Rudolf Vahl[29] Secession Style The building had many owners: initially a Prussian realschule, then a city high school for mathematics and natural sciences, it housed a military hospital during German occupation.

Tenement at 1, corner with Adam Mickiewicz Alley 1905–1908,[30] by Paul Sellner Art Nouveau Built in the first years of the 20th century on a commission by Wilhelm Knelke, a manufacturer, its first landlord was a rentier, Ferdinand Krauße.

One of the oldest buildings in the street, the frontage features interesting ornaments: rosettes in a frieze crowning the transom light gate, two adorned bay windows with cartouches and a large gable dormer embellished with vegetal Art Nouveau stuccos.

[37] Paul Sellner created representative, metropolitan houses in the style of early modernism located in today's Bydgoszcz downtown,[38] such as the building at Gdanska street 95.

[33] This massive tenement is jammed with Art Nouveau details and motifs, on both facades: pillars on avant-corps decorated with festoons, an exquisite portal adorned with floral motifs up to the oeil-de-boeuf, a round avant-corps topped with a frieze near the corner and as much decoration on the other elevation with bay windows and a second ornamented gate.

Tenement at 12 1909–1910,[11] by Emil Dogs[5] Eclecticism, Art Nouveau Initial owner of this building was Max Reschke, a carpenter master, who never lived in.

In addition, on the entry portal, two stylized pillars support the lintel topped with Art Nouveau motifs and decoration.

Tenement at 13, corner with 15 Zamoyskiego street 1910–1915,[11] by Rudolf Kern[5] Art Nouveau, early Modern architecture Investor for the project was Emil Heydemann.

Tenement at 14 1906,[39] by Goltz brothers[5] Late Eclecticism, elements of Modernism The building dates from 1906 and is notable because of one of its past tenants, Józef Paderewski.

[5] Though intensively decorated, the main elevation features early modern elements through various geometric shapes, very few curves and the global trend for displaying vertical stretched lines.

Tenement at 21 1910,[11] by Emil Heydemann[5] Early Modernism, Art Nouveau elements Located when erected at Schillerstraße 43, the first landlord, Otto Tarnow, a post office secretary,[5] has never inhabited there.

However, one can still make out last remnants of Art Nouveau influence: cartouche filled with floral or vegetal motifs, a terrace on top of the avant-corps, or the curved wall dormer pierced by an oeil-de-boeuf.

[37] Both facades combine eclectic-neo-classical style (symmetry in the openings, corner bay window), and Art Nouveau features (vegetal motifs, rosettes, festoons, curved shape decoration inside cartouches).

[5] The renovation performed at the end of 2016 emphasizes the balance of the main frontage, underlined by a massive avant-corps enhanced by lean ornamental pillars and crowned by triangular wall dormer bearing a large glass opening.