Name

Budynek Poczty Polskiej

Architect

Julian Puterman-Sadłowski, Antoni Miszewski

Year of built

1928-1929

Postal and Telegraph Office (currently the Main Post Office)

It is the earliest public utility building made in the modernist style – with rhythmic glazing of large windows.

It comes from the first phase of Gdynia's modernism, i.e. early functionalism. Designed by the Warsaw architects Julian Puterman-Sadłowski and Antoni Miszewski in 1928, the building was finally completed almost a decade later, during the redevelopment, when it was raised by one floor. Until World War II, above the main entrance there was a monumental bas-relief with the image of an eagle and two allegorical figures. The building burnt down in 1945.

Buildings to see on the route

Map of the route

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