Pinsk. The building of the hotel "English".
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Belarus, Brest region, Pinsk, Lenin St., 2
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01.01.2025
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In the very center of the city of Pinsk there is a pedestrian Lenin Street, where there are many interesting historical sites and architectural monuments. The very first building on the right, as you walk from Lenin Square, is the former English Hotel, which was built in the 1920s during the time of the Polish state. There were shops on the ground floor, and the hotel itself on the 2nd and 3rd floors. The hotel was considered the best in the city in terms of its equipment, and all the famous guests of Pinsk stayed here. In 1934, the famous American researcher Louise Boyd, who came to study Pinsk Polesie, lived in this hotel for two months.
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Latitude: 52.11203486
Longitude: 26.1050252
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1Алег Дзьячкоу
01.01.2025
Pinsk. The building of the hotel "English".
In the city of Pinsk, at the very beginning of Lenin 2 pedestrian street, if you walk from the building of the Jesuit Collegium and Lenin Square, you will see from the right corner a three–story Art Nouveau building - this is the building of the former hotel "English".
The house was built in 1925-1928 with a corner bay window supported by a round column. The owner of the building was Moisha Schmidt, a resident of Pinsk. On the ground floor there were shops and a restaurant–cabaret "Paradise", where there was not only excellent cuisine, but also beautiful dancers with professional musicians. An inscription from the time of the Polish state has been preserved on the corner column, where the following is written in Polish: 'Goldberg's thrift store'. And on the second and third floors there was the best hotel in the city, which was called "English". Each room had a telephone, luxurious furniture and all the necessary amenities. And that's why Pinsk's most famous guests stayed in this hotel.
In 1934, it was in this building that the American geographer and traveler Louise Arner Boyd (1887-1972) lived for a while, who made an ethnographic expedition to Pinsk Polesie. Together with the researcher were Polish geographers Wanda Ravenska and Stanislav Gazhuchowski, as well as a personal driver. The researchers stayed in the hotel for two months and traveled from there to the towns and villages of the Pinsk Region. Louise Boyd wrote in her diary: "in my life, I have seen many different fairs in different countries of the world, but nowhere have I seen the unique and interesting things that I saw in Pinsk... " the expedition visited Pinkovichi, Gorodishche, Kudrichi and other places. In 1937, the photo album "Polish Province" was published in New York, since at that time Pinshchyna was part of the Polish state until 1939.
More about this famous traveller is written here.
Now the building of the former hotel has been restored and shops and residential apartments are located here.
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