The initial post-war years in Czechoslovakia were marked by a lack of housing. Even though the problem afflicted mainly industrial towns, Litomyšl was also affected with its small businesses, schools and local authorities. Therefore, in the early 1920s, the town council was compelled to solve the bleak situation and between 1921 and 1922, had their first apartment block built for employees in the new, representative Masaryk Quarter to a design by the Prague architect Bohumil Hübschmann.
The three-storey building with traditional hipped roof was built as a “point–de–vue“ of the new granite steps connecting the historical centre with the Masaryk Quarter, which it then dominated. Even though the building is located on a gentle slope and fronts onto the main avenue, Hübschmann placed no special accent on the facade and placed the entrance in a modest annex with distinctive oval (so called ox's eyes) and segmented windows at the rear of the building.
The modestly decorated facade reflects the refined work of Hübschmann's mentor Otta Wagner of the Vienna Academy of Applied Art. The architect dressed the building in a Classicism-style coat broken up with a scratched geometric “grid”, sprinkled regularly with a relief diamond pattern. Hübschmann repeats the same motif on the second storey which however, differs from the white lower storey in being of an ochre tone and in having a more subtle grid pattern. The following year, Hübschmann used similar designs on buildings in the employees' quarters of the Ústřední Elektrárna in the North Bohemian village of Ervěnice.
The building comprises spacious two and three-room flats with amenities, and is in good, well-maintained condition, and remains true to its original design right up to the present.
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