Hotel Lloyd

address: 2 TrgRepublike Hrvatske
Period: Historicism
Kind: Immovable material heritage
Century: 19
Year: 1873
Purpose: residental business

The Hotel Lloyd is located on the square Trg Republike Hrvatske, the former Piazza Adamich. The year of the construction of the original building in unknown. In 1873, the owners Andrija and Dragomir Bakarčić decided to rebuild another two floors to the existing two-storey building. The reconstruction project was made by Giovanni Baccarcich, and it was finished the following year. The building was originally intended for business-residential purposes, and after its reconstruction in 1874, it was converted into a catering facility as the owners rented a few rooms for commercial activities.

The building is Classicistic, with simple one-dimensional decorative elements added after reconstruction. The central part of the eastern façade is emphasized with avant-corps and a portal flanked by two columns with Doric capitals and added consoles supporting the first-floor balcony. The second floor also contains a balcony, but much smaller.

Another restoration was done in 1882 when the arch openings on the ground floor were converted into rectangular. The authors of the project were Julije Stanisavljević and Giacomo Mattich. The edifice was adapted again after the Second World War, with the last intervention being made in 2010 when the roof and the façade were repaired. 

In 1919, after Gabriele D´Annunzio took over Rijeka and introduced anarchy, his followers arrived to the city, among others Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the creator of futurism, who stayed at the Hotel Lloyd.

 

Valorization:

The building is a valuable example of historicistic architecture in Rijeka.

 

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