Collegiate tenement house at 22 Szewska Street Kraków
ul. Szewska 22, 31-009 Kraków
Tourist region: Kraków i okolice
Originally, two 16th-century Gothic tenement houses stood here. The eastern one was called the Groszowska tenement house, and the western one was the Rządczykowska tenement house.
In 1636 the eastern house, and in 1653 the western house, became the property of the Collegiate Church of St Anne. When curates and penitents took up residence in them, they began to be called collegiate. They also housed the Music Bursa operating at the Collegiate Church. In the 17th century, the houses were enriched with Mannerist stonework.
Both tenement houses were demolished in 1910, and in their place, on the initiative of Canon Józef Caputa, a modernist two-storey townhouse with historicist elements was built between 1910 and 1911, designed by the architect Józef Pokutyński. It was home to the Publishing House of Devotional Books and Józef Cebulski's Devotional Articles Store, which printed pictures and prayer books.
The façade of the building is six-axes with avant-corps in the central part. Above the stone portal relocated from the Groszowska tenement house, there is a stone plaque commemorating the construction and its initiator. Other elements of Mannerist stonework from the first half of the 17th century are exposed on the ground floor, the pilasters of the window jambs and two inter-window columns relocated from the demolished eastern tenement.
Today, the tenement houses the elegant Szewska 22 Boutique Hotel.