Pierwsza siedziba Sejmu II Rzeczypospolitej. Addenda et corrigenda
The First Seat of the Parliament of the Second Polish Republic. Addenda et Corrigenda

Summary/Abstract: At the point of Poland regaining independence Warsaw could not boast edifices that were able to satisfy the needs of a state’s capital. The decision was made for the raising of a new set of buildings to be postponed, while the Parliament would be temporarily housed in an adapted building. The 19th-century school complex of the Alexandrian-Mariinsky Institute (formerly Nobility Institute) was selected for the purpose. The focus in the paper is on the history of this edifice, the history of its raising, extension, and adaptation for the needs of the Sejm (Parliament’s lower house) after the design of Kazimierz Tołłoczko, Romuald Miller, and Tadeusz Szanior (1918–1919), and subsequently for those of the Senate as designed by Stanisław Miecznikowski in 1928; attention is also paid to the history of competitions and designed, albeit unaccomplished extensions of the complex in the inter-war period.

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