Customs Chamber

The years 1815-1830 were a time of economic development for Lublin. New public buildings appeared. One of them was the Customs House at Litewski Square at the corner of Czechowska Street (now 3 Maja Street) and Krakowskie Przedmieście Street. The tenement house, where the office was located, was bought by the Treasury of the Kingdom of Poland in 1824. In the neighbourhood, a neo-Gothic building of the Lublin District Commission was erected. The author of the project was Jan Stomf (Stompf). Between the Komora and the Regional Commission, a coach house and a depot were to be situated. This would create a complex of three buildings standing in one line. The design assumed that the facades of the outer buildings (the Chamber and the Commission) would be like mirror images. Unfortunately, this did not happen. Only the two-storey Komora building was crowned by a high attic in neo-Gothic style. In the wall adjoining from the right there was an entrance gate, which is immortalised in a photograph from around 1901. The photograph was taken by a photographer with a Russian-sounding name, Dagayev, who probably lived in Lublin for a short time. In 1912-1914, the building of the State Bank of Russia, designed by Vladimir Soloviev, was built in place of the Komorna. Over the next century, various banking institutions had their headquarters here. In the interwar period, the premises of the former District Commission, in today's Żołnierzy Niepodległości Street (until recently I Armii Wojska Polskiego Street), housed the District Starost's Office and the Police Investigation Office. Today it houses the District Sanitary and Epidemiological Station.