The building was constructed in 1877 by master mason Anton Hoffman, stepfather of Józef Święcicki, who designed a multitude of tenements in Bydgoszcz, in particular Hotel "Pod Orlem", Gdanska street N°63 or Stary Port Street N°1 and 3. The first owner was a brick factory manager, Otto Bollmann, a German merchant who never lived in the house. The edifice was conceived as a tenement house with five apartments. Originally at Schule straße 3, tenants were senior officers, officials and artists, such as:
:de:Julius Bachmann|Julius Bachmann, Lord Mayor of Bromberg in the 1880s,;
:pl:Jerzy Mieczysław Rupniewski|Jerzy Rupniewski, famous 1920s-1950s Polish painter.
In 1920, the property passed into the hands of Magdalena Łaganowska who settled there and rented the other flats. During World War II, the tenement was taken over by German authorities, who accommodated there doctors who worked at the field hospital set up at Konarskiego N°5, now the building of the Catering School of Bydgoszcz. After World War II, the tenement was managed by a communist estate agency, till the early 1990s. In 1997, it returned to private hands. Since December 2003, the owners of the building are Joanna and Janusz Franczak: they rebuilt the interiors and opened in July 2008the Hotel "Bohema". The Café and restaurant "Weranda" opened on April 15, 2007, and restaurant "Black Diamond" on March 22, 2009.
Architecture and characteristics
The hotel features eclectic style, standing out as a charm and rich bourgeois house from the belle époque period. The facade on the street boasts neo-Renaissance characteristics, in particular:
two slight avant-corps, the right one -giving way to a passage to the backyard- is adorned on the first level by a figure inserted in the curved pediment;
pilasters on the first floor entirely covered with delicate motifs.
The building side giving onto the park comprises the "Weranda" restaurant, but also exposes in the background nicely restored wooden balcony and loggia. The hotel offers 24 rooms, a studio for families, apartments and suites. Besides, it features, among others, a restaurant, the "Black Diamond", where you can have dinner in complete darkness, a rooftop terrace with jacuzzi,a wine cellar, an indoor swimming pool, a Spa and a Clarinsmassage salon. Every few months are organized exhibitions of artists, concerts and meetings with famous people. The hotel is proud of its ancient limousine with chauffeur in livery, which became today a symbol of the institution. Hotel "Bohema", since 2008, is the only five star hotel within Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. The building has been registered on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List N°722475 Reg.A/1385, on September 16, 2008.
