The first owner was a brick factory manager, Otto Bollmann, a German merchant who never lived in the house.
The edifice was conceived as a tenement house with five apartments. Originally at Schule straße 3, tenants were senior officers, officials and artists, such as:
In 1920, the property passed into the hands of Magdalena Łaganowska[4] who settled there and rented the other flats. During World War II, the tenement was taken over by German authorities, who accommodated there doctors who worked at the field hospital set up at 5 Konarskiego, now the building of the Catering School of Bydgoszcz.[3]
After World War II, the tenement was managed by a communist estate agency, till the early 1990s. In 1997, it returned to private hands. Since December 2003, the new owners of the building rebuilt the interiors and opened in July 2008 the Hotel "Bohema".[5] The Café and restaurant "Weranda" opened on April 15, 2007, and restaurant "Black Diamond" on March 22, 2009.[5]
Architecture and characteristics
The hotel features eclectic style, standing out as a charm and rich bourgeois house from the belle époque period.[6]
The facade on the street displays neo-Renaissance characteristics, in particular:
a frieze and a rosette strip parting ground and first floor;
two slight avant-corps, the right one -giving way to a passage to the backyard- is adorned on the first level by a figure inserted in the curved pediment;
^ abZałącznik do uchwały Nr XXXIV/601/13. Sejmiku Województwa Kujawsko-Pomorskiego. 20 May 2013.
^Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von, Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr (1880). "Strassen". auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen. p. XLV.
^ abFrom Bunia to "Bohema", discussion between Joanna and Janusz Franczak with Irena Stürm-Delcroix, leaflet booklet published by hotel "Bohema"
^Adresy Miasta Bydgoszcy (1922). Owners list. Bydgoszcz: Księgarnia Bydgoska. p. 115.