Courtyard at Piotrkowska 89

The courtyard at Piotrkowska 89 is sometimes called Art Nouveau at number 89, though it is not a single building but a whole cluster of outbuildings added over more than a decade around the front tenement. Mature trees, an elegant courtyard and well kept facades make it one of the most representative courtyards on the whole street.

The Kloss tenement and its expansion

The two storey front tenement was built by Karol Fryderyk Kloss between 1877 and 1881, the building does not yet appear on the 1877 city map, but it is already recorded in 1881 documentation for the construction of the right hand outbuilding. The owner did not stop at one expansion: in 1889 he received permission to build a further brick, basemented outbuilding, and in 1892 he rebuilt a ground floor warehouse with storerooms and added yet another two storey residential outbuilding. These successive stages of expansion created the cluster of buildings that forms the courtyard space today.

Practical information

The courtyard is open to everyone, entered from Piotrkowska Street, free of charge. Food and service venues operate inside and nearby, their offer changes over time, so it is worth checking current hours and menus on site. The nickname 'Art Nouveau at number 89' stuck among locals even though the sequence of construction stretched over more than a decade, worth keeping in mind when looking at the seemingly uniform facade of the outbuildings. It is worth coming here during the day, when sunlight filters through the tree crowns, that is when it is easiest to see why many residents of Łódź consider this one of the nicest courtyards in the whole city. The building is listed as Kamienica Ferdynanda Klosse.