By the late 1930s, the prolific interwar construction in new Masaryk Quarter had reached the southernmost point – the area of today's Dukelská Street. The building plots along its south side were of generous size (up to half a hectare) and designated for individual houses and villas – a plan that was later disrupted by the construction of the Vertex housing estate.
One of the rarest buildings in this sector, from an architectural point of view, is the villa of the chief surgeon in Litomyšl, Jaroslav Krinke. Built between 1939 and 1940 it stood on the corner of T. G. Masaryka and Dukelská Streets. It was designed by Karel Tymich, who was also responsible for the design of the polytechnic school (04-659). The architect probably knew Dr. Krinke well from the hospital as he specialized in buildings for the health service and had been designing various sections of the hospital since the 1920s.
Tymich designed a generously-sized building with a rectangular floor plan whose facade is characteristic with its contrasting massive stone ground-floor bossage and “fragile” surfaces with large windows in coloured frames. Among these windows are the slightly protruding glazed strips of the corner windows of the conservatory. Tymich, who was not afraid to apply Avant-garde Functionalist elements and pure geometric forms to his other projects, added (probably to comply with the investor's wishes) a hipped roof and arcades to the ground-floor facade facing the garden, thus enabling the building to merge with its surroundings.
The spacious house had a flat for the caretaker in the raised basement, a utility room with a garage and laboratory; the raised ground floor contained a fully-equipped surgery, Krinkes' flat with a room for a maid, and the afore-mentioned conservatory.
In 1948, Jaroslav Krinke, who had worked in Litomyšl until 1945, emigrated. From the 1960s the building housed a crèche, for which it was necessary to modify the interior and, later, to add an annex to the east wall. The building was subsequently used by various institutes. Presently, the building is a Free-Time Centre for young people, for which it has undergone a complex reconstruction. The Hradec Králové design studio Žárovka has made significant modifications to its interior as well as its exterior. The latter being dominated by a large circular window facing onto the street.
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