A corner tenement at Piotrkowska and Narutowicza from 1876, its rusticated ground floor decorated with carved lion heads, restored close to its original form in 2015-2016.
A corner tenement house at Piotrkowska 54, on the corner with Narutowicza street, associated with the name of manufacturer Franciszek Fischer. It is one of few buildings in this section of the street that have undergone thorough renovation in recent years and now presents itself in a form close to its original state.
The plot marked as number 115 in the registers was taken over in 1834 by weaver Prokop Luniak. In subsequent decades the owners included tailor Ignacy Lissner and Krystian Kunkel, and from 1848 the entire property belonged to Franciszek Pietschmann, one of the larger Łódź producers of woollen textiles in the early 1850s. In the early 1860s the estate was purchased by Franciszek Fischer senior, a weaver who had arrived from Rumburk [Bohemia].
After Fischer senior's death in 1862, the property passed to his widow Teresa, and then to his son, Franciszek Fischer junior. It was during his time, in 1876, according to a design by architect Hilary Majewski, that a two-storey corner tenement house was built, measuring eight bays on the Piotrkowska side and six on the Narutowicza side.
The facade represents eclecticism with a predominance of Renaissance elements. The rusticated ground floor is adorned with decorative keystones in the form of carved lion heads, while the windows of the upper storeys are framed in pilasters with arched lintels, decorated with plant motifs. The building is registered in the list of immovable monuments under number A/341, by decision of 29 October 1993.
In the years 1889-1890 Franciszek Fischer also erected the neighbouring imposing palace at present-day Narutowicza 1, formerly Dzielna 1, according to a design by architect Edward Kreutzberg. Both buildings, the tenement and the palace, are the only ones on the southern side of Narutowicza street that were not demolished during the People's Republic of Poland period.
Around 1900 the tenement housed nine shops, including a delicatessen and a tea trade representative office. During the interwar period it housed the office of a textile factory. After the Second World War the building was nationalised and adapted for commercial premises, and in the years 2015-2016 it underwent renovation including roof replacement, facade repairs and reconstruction of architectural details. The Fischer family remained the property owner at least until the 1920s.
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