A Classicist corner tenement from 1862 at Piotrkowska 13, where a crowd gathered outside Jan Peter's tavern in 1861 before going on to wreck Abram Prussak's mechanical spinning mill.
At the corner of Piotrkowska 13 and Próchnika Street 2 stands a classicist corner tenement house from 1862, one of the buildings from the early period of the city's development. It was built on an L-shaped plan, and today it is viewed from the pedestrian mall together with neighbouring tenement houses on this side of the street.
The plot bore mortgage number 277. Gottfryd Fraind took over the land at Piotrkowska in 1825, and two years later erected a timber two-family house. In 1839 the property was purchased by Fryderyka Burg, who less than two months later married dyer Jan Peter. From the beginning of the 1840s, Peter ran a trade in spices, fish and soap at this location.
In March 1862 Jan Peter submitted an application to the Magistrate [city council] for permission to build a brick house, 65 feet long and 46 feet wide at the front, with a side wing 120 feet long. The single-storey corner house was erected that same year, according to a design by architect Jan Karol Mertsching, in the classicist style. On the Piotrkowska side the tenement house has a risalit with four Ionic pilasters, topped with a branch frieze and triangular tympanum, and the corner has a chamfered edge with a cast iron balustrade. On the Próchnika side the elevation has a similar risalit with tympanum. The tenement house is entered in the register of immovable monuments of Łódź Voivodeship [province], first on 24 February 1964, then again on 20 March 1971.
After the brick tenement house was erected, the building served residential and commercial functions. Among those who lived here were notary Konstanty Płachecki and teachers from the county secondary school, while the commercial part was occupied by Jan Peter's tavern and confectionery. In April 1861, still under the old timber house, a crowd gathered at Peter's tavern and subsequently marched to Stare Miasto [Old Town] to destroy the mechanical spinning mill of Abraham Prussak. After the fall of the January Uprising, plans to establish a Polytechnic Institute in Łódź even considered temporarily housing it in this very tenement. In the 1890s the building already housed six shops and the bookshop of Julius Arndt, and earlier, at the end of 1868, a bookshop at this address had been opened by A. Milsch. House tariffs from 1888–1920 list Gustav Peter, Jan's son, as the next owner, then his wife Anna Maria Peter and Gustav's successors.
On the other side of the pedestrian mall stands David Sendrowicz Tenement House, and a few steps further Joseph Monitz Tenement House and Abraham Lubinski Tenement House. In the same area also stands Scheibler Family Tenement House.
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