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No. 17851

Manor house · Ukraine

Tyszkiewicz Palace, Stari Brody

Stari Brody, Ukraine20th centuryFirst known reference: 678
Manor houseRestored
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No. 17851 · 50.076 N, 25.158 E

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Tyszkiewicz Palace, Stari Brody is a manor house in Ukraine, listed as reference No. 17851.

Tyszkiewicz Palace, Stari Brody is a manor house in Stari Brody, Ukraine with origins associated with the 20th century.

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Палац Тишкевичів у Старих Бродах in Brody, Ukraine, was erected by the Tyszkiewicz family in the early 20th century as a small neoclassical residence and belongs to the local tradition of landed noble dwellings. Built on land acquired from the large Potocki estate, the house reflects the period when aristocratic estates in the area were being subdivided and sold at the opening decades of the century. It is noted locally as one of the region’s smaller palaces and has served as a visible part of the village landscape since its construction.

At the start of the 1900s the Potocki family began selling plots in the settlement known as Stari Brody, then a suburb of Brody, and the Tyszkiewicz family purchased one such parcel. An earlier house rose on that plot in the same period but was taken down soon afterwards. In 1912, at the initiative of Countess Wanda Tyszkiewicz, a new masonry palace was built on the site; the present building dates from that construction campaign.

The palace remained standing through the First World War and the years between the wars. During the Second World War the building suffered damage and was later repaired. During the Soviet period household and luxury objects from the interior were taken away and their fate is not recorded. In 1986 the house was entered into the official register of architectural monuments of local importance (protection number 678‑m), providing formal recognition of its historic value.

Today the former residence is occupied by the office of the State Enterprise Brody Forestry, whose staff are responsible for its upkeep. The house sits within a park that includes a pond and a small summerhouse. In the early 2000s a fountain with a statue representing forestry work was added in front of the building.

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The palace has a compact, symmetrical plan centered on a main axis with a corridor running through the interior, and sits one storey above a used basement beneath a low hipped roof. The construction is solid masonry from the 1912 rebuilding, executed in a restrained classical manner that was common for residential country houses of the period. The building is positioned back from the street, set within its park rather than aligned with the road.

The principal entrance is marked by a projecting colonnade of Tuscan columns (simple classical columns), which supports a stone balcony at the attic or mansard level (upper floor set into the roof). The entrance itself is formed in rusticated masonry (stone with deliberately roughened faces), leading up to the balcony above. The balcony terminates in a shaped central projection, a risalit (a section that projects forward from the main façade), capped with a profiled cornice and framed by pilasters. The triangular space of the pediment, the tympanum (the recessed triangular panel), is decorated with applied stucco reliefs in plant motifs, while the balcony balusters are made of cast stone.

Ground-floor pilasters display rustication that matches the entrance treatment, and window openings are finished with decorative surrounds. The only recorded alteration to the main façade is the substitution of the Tyszkiewicz family coat of arms on the central cartouche with the state emblem of Ukraine. The building was damaged during the Second World War and later restored; under subsequent administration items from the interiors were removed and relocated in an unknown direction. The surrounding grounds include a pond and a gazebo, both maintained, and a fountain-statue symbolizing forestry that was installed in the early 2000s. The structure is currently maintained in functioning condition by the forestry enterprise that occupies it.

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