User:KrzysztofPoplawski/Folk House in Sosnowiec

Folk House - building at ul. Club 2 in Sosnowiec district Ostrowy Górnicze, built in 1902-1903 according to the project of Warsaw architects: Franciszek Lilpop and Kazimierz Jankowski. The building was erected in accordance with Stanisław Witkiewicz's style promoted as the Zakopane style as a proper national style of wooden construction. One of the elements of the complex, which included: Initiator and founder of the Warsaw Mining Association and Metallurgical Works.
 * Director's Villa
 * Hospital from the 1893
 * The School from the 1901
 * Zakopane-style ambulatory of 1904
 * Folk's House of 1903
 * 2 bureaucratic houses in manor style from the 1920s.

The building during the time of the uprising fulfilled many functions: mining lodge, library and reading room, ballroom, billiard room, restaurant and theater room. Surrounded by parkland, it was a place of rest and entertainment for officials and selected (distinguished) employees of the Warsaw Mining Association and the Metallurgical Works. For this reason, it was colloquially known as the Tavern in Niemce (the Niemce colony - the name replaced after 1945 by the name of Ostrowy Górnicze) or the Club. Until 1939, the building served as a center of social and cultural life. After the Second World War until the end of the 1970s, there was the Kazimierz-Juliusz Mine Culture House.

At present the Folk's House is the seat of "Alicja" Tree Nursery and the Wedding House. You can also use the accommodation here. Till this day wooden ceilings are preserved as also original windows and door joinery, stoves and decorative elements. The current owners have been restored with great commitment - renovations have been ongoing since 1993.