Ambroży Grabowski Street, Kraków

Ambroży Grabowski Street is a street in Kraków, Poland. It is in the Old Town district, in the Piasek area. The street goes from Karmelicka Street to Jan Kochanowski Street in a south-west direction.

 History 
The street was created in the early 20th century. At first, it was called Bogata Street for a short time. In 1903, it was renamed to honor Ambroży Grabowski, a Kraków historian and bookseller.

 Buildings 
In the 19th century, before the street was built, there was a small manor house with a garden owned by Jan Wańkowicz, a fighter in the January Uprising and a friend of Romuald Traugutt. Today, the street has apartment buildings (called kamienice in Polish) built in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Some of them are:

 No. 1 (52 Karmelicka Street) – Apartment building, designed by Beniamin Torbe (?) in 1906.
 No. 2 (50 Karmelicka Street) – Apartment building, designed by Aleksander Biborski (?) in 1905.
 No. 3 – Art Nouveau apartment building, designed by Beniamin Torbe in 1905.
 No. 4 – Historicist-style apartment building, designed by Józef Hercok in 1900.
 No. 5 (1 Tadeusz Pawlikowski Street) – Apartment building, designed by Józef Pakies in 1905.
 No. 6 – Historicist-style apartment building, designed by Henryk Lamensdorf in 1906.
 No. 7 (2 Tadeusz Pawlikowski Street) – Apartment building, designed by Józef Pakies in 1905.
 No. 8 – Apartment building, designed by Franciszek Mączyński, built under Aleksander Biborski in 1902.
 No. 9 – Apartment building, designed by Henryk Lamensdorf (1910–1912).
 No. 10 – Historicist-style apartment building, built in 1899.
 No. 12 (15 Jan Kochanowski Street) – A standalone villa with Art Nouveau decorations, surrounded by a garden.
 No. 13 (17 Jan Kochanowski Street) – Historicist-style apartment building.

 References 

Category:Streets in Kraków