1. Villa Leontynówka
13 Krakowska Street
The villa was erected around 1910 for Antoni Sapieha. It is an example of a historicizing form supplemented with classicizing details. It has two representative façades: one from the railway side, equipped with a terrace supported on pillars and a balustraded attic on part of the building, and a garden façade decorated with hardware and plant ornamentation. During World War II, Captain Jan Kisielewski lived in the villa and meetings of the Kedyw staff of the Home Army District “Bażant” were held here.
2. Villa Wilhelmowo / Józefina
13 Piasta Street
Built around 1905 as the private villa of architect Wilhelm Anders, modeled on a villa from the French Riviera. In 1919 it was purchased by Józef Wilson and then its name was changed to “Józefina.” From 1921 to 1934, siblings Henryk and Stanisława Witaczek lived here. The villa is built in an eclectic style with neo-Renaissance elements, with an asymmetrically placed tower and wooden openwork verandas. On the first floor, on both sides of semicircular-arched windows, decorative wreaths with ribbons were placed.
3. Villa Halina
24 Literacka Street
It was probably built according to the design of a collaborator of Czesław Przybylski, Zdzisław Kalinowski. It is an example of a decorative variation of the manor style with neo-Rococo details. Both the villa and the adjacent former outbuilding are covered with a Polish roof.
4. Villa Mironówka
7 Literacka Street
It was built in the years 1910–1913 for Piotr Krasnodębski, a painter and graphic artist, a social activist who played a significant role in the history of the development of the Milanówek summer resort. The design of “Mironówka” is the work of Czesław Przybylski and Zdzisław Kalinowski. The early modernist villa refers to the English cottage style. The building housed the first experimental laboratory of Miron Krasnodębski, a member of the Home Army group “Bażant,” who became famous for the production of mercury fulminate, a detonator for grenade fuses.
5. Church of St. Hedwig of Silesia
41 Kościuszki Street
Built in the years 1910–1912 according to the design of Tadeusz Okuń. The façade has a neo-Romanesque character, while the side elevations contain neo-Gothic elements. In the main altar there is Christ Crucified by the Bulgarian sculptor Dymitr Petrow. In the side altar there is a painting of the Madonna with Child by Wojciech Gerson. In the presbytery windows there are stained-glass windows with figures of adoring angels according to the design of Antoni Dzierzbicki. In September 1939, a field hospital was located in the presbytery, which existed until the capitulation of Warsaw. After the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, the Warsaw Metropolitan Curia and the Archbishop’s Court (until 1945) moved their headquarters here. From September 1944 to October 1945, the urn with the heart of Fryderyk Chopin, evacuated from the burning capital, was kept in the presbytery of the church.
6. Villa Liliana / Bojanówka
2 Królowej Jadwigi Street
Built in the years 1907–1910, the villa has a characteristic two-storey brick corner tower and wooden two-storey verandas. The first-floor veranda has a balustrade of balusters, above which there is a wooden structure decorated with braces. The tops of the posts are glazed with a series of square panes. Similarly, the balustrade of the entrance porch with trapped balusters was extended with a wooden structure and colorfully glazed in a style characteristic of the late 19th century.
7. Villa Borówka
5 Królowej Jadwigi Street
A summer villa built in 1904 by the architectural company of Władysław Kozłowski and Apoloniusz Nieniewski for Artur Hoser, from a well-known horticultural family settled in Poland in the mid-19th century. “Borówka” is an example of a residence built in the form of a neo-Gothic castle with a tower, enriched with details taken from other historical styles. Characteristic is the combination of white plastered masonry parts and exposed brick parts with window sills made of dark green ceramic elements. The outbuilding located within the property originally housed a carriage house, stable, and caretaker’s apartment.
8. Villa Waleria
22 Spacerowa Street
The villa was erected in 1910 according to the author’s design of actor and director Rufin Morozowicz as a magnificent residence for his wife, Waleria née Kotowicz. The building represents the style of modernized historicism. The front façade is distinguished by a three-axis central risalit, preceded by a columned porch with representative stairs leading towards the garden.
In 1915, the villa was damaged as a result of a shrapnel explosion. Around 1916, during reconstruction, in place of the northern veranda, a spacious sculptural studio of Szczepkowski was created, and on the upper floor, above the studio, a dining room was arranged.
Currently, the villa houses the headquarters of the Milanówek Cultural Centre, as well as a permanent exhibition devoted to the work of Jan Szczepkowski.
9. Villa Romin
16 Królowej Jadwigi Street
The villa was built in the years 1928–1929. One of the guests staying in “Romin” before the war was the outstanding writer Władysław Umiński, author of excellent science fiction novels. The building is an example of the manor style realized with great flourish. Attention is drawn to the columned porch with a triple arcade opening, symmetrically arranged arcaded recesses and equipped with balustrades of balusters, as well as corner risalits, above which there are mansard windows.
10. Villa Zacisze
6 Słowackiego Street
The villa was erected in the years 1930–1932 for the famous opera tenor Stanisław Gruszczyński. The next owner of the villa, Aleksander Brzuzek, during World War II passed documents concerning Nazi crimes in occupied Poland to the West. After the Warsaw Uprising, the evacuated Ujazdowski Hospital was located here. After the war, the villa was subjected to compulsory housing; some classes of Primary School No. 3 were located here, a vocational clothing school, and later a furniture store. Originally, the property included, apart from the villa, also an administrator’s house, a groom’s house, and a stable.
11. Villa Kresy
3 Słowackiego Street
A three-storey wooden building erected before World War I as a guesthouse. In the garden behind the house there was a large detached dining room with a kitchen. In the early 1930s, a commercial school run by the Polish Educational Society operated in the building. From 1935, in part of the premises classes of a private primary school were held. In the guide from 1936, the villa “Kresy” is listed as a functioning guesthouse. In 1944, a children’s hospital with 25 beds was opened here, run by Dr. Halina Tomaszewska, as well as a branch of the Child Jesus Hospital evacuated from Warsaw.
12. Villa Flora / Polanka
24 Krakowska Street
Architect Józef Sosnowski from Lviv bought the plot together with the villa “Flora” in 1920, probably built shortly after the beginning of the parceling of the Milanówek estate. In 1925, Maria Augusta from the Nofer family sold the property “Polanka.” The villa was built on an irregular plan in the style of historicizing modernism, referring to English suburban cottage houses. From the gate to the villa leads an avenue planted with Italian oaks rare in Poland, which is a natural monument.
13. Villa Sosnowica
2 Wielki Kąt Street
A villa by Józef Sosnowski, probably built in 1935 for his son Jerzy, a cavalry captain and intelligence ace of pre-war Poland. After the war, the building served some classes of Primary School No. 3, and later the Ministry. The villa was also the seat of the Office of Research and Statistics of the Ministry of Education, headed by Professor Marian Falski, author of the most famous Polish “Primer.” The villa is maintained in the character of a classical palace, with a main risalit decorated with a portico with Ionic capitals. The western risalit is crowned with a stepped gable with the Nałęcz coat of arms (of Józef Sosnowski’s wife – Adela).
14. Villa Księżanka
52 Warszawska Street
This is a building from 1912, where in the years 1945–1950 the Two-Year Coeducational Specialized Natural-Technical-Silk High School operated, preparing youth for all professions related to the development of the silk industry in Poland. From 1952, a nursery for the children of employees of the nearby Natural Silk Works operated in Villa Księżanka.
15. Villa Matulka
30 Piłsudskiego Street
The villa, erected in the years 1909–1911 for Ludwik Kajetan Leśniewski, is an example of a combination of modernism and Art Nouveau. Attention is drawn to the interesting combination of brick wall and white plastered parts. On the upper storey, exposed elements of timber framing give the villa the character of Swiss architecture. On August 12, 1945, the first post-war exhibition of works of the Association of Polish Visual Artists was opened here. From 1945 to 1990, the ground floor of the villa was occupied by the Municipal Committee of the PPR, and later the PZPR. For several years, the Municipal Library was also located here. Since 1994, the villa has been occupied by the Polish Post.