Not long after the completion of Litomyšl's first apartment block, designed by Bohumil Hübschmann and built in T. G. Masaryk Street between 1921 and 1922 (04-591), another apartment block was built in its neighbourhood. This building, designated for state employees, was designed by the architect Kotěra's pupil Petr Kropačka and built by local builder Václav O. Medek between 1925 and 1926.
The architect took advantage of Hübschmann's building, whose entrance does not face the main street but opens out onto the rear of the building – towards the building that Kropáček was designing. The layout of his design was in the shape of a U, whose both arms were spread out downwards towards the entrance facade of the opposite building, thus creating a half-enclosed, sloping inner block.
The original concept of the two-storey apartment building was, in the original plans, free of any relief decoration, making it one of the most restrained facades of the time in Litomyšl. Influenced by Kotěra's geometrical modernism and purism, Kropáček used engineering brick – not white brick as used by František Krásný a year earlier on the Sokol Organization building (05-628), but “industrial-red”, which was intended to fill the inner-section of the U-shape and the area of the second floor perimeter of the building. The remaining surfaces, including the shallow avant-corps in the central axis of the building, were to be finished in smooth, light-coloured rendering. In the final design however, probably for financial reasons, the brick version was discarded and replaced with traditional rendering in a shade of red, evoking brickwork, and contrasting with the other, light-coloured, surfaces.
The flats, divided between two independent entrances, were of varying sizes (the majority having two rooms). However, all were fitted with bathrooms, which inhabitants of older flats lacked at that time, having to rely on the public baths for bathing.
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