The Sapieha Palace in Lviv, Ukraine is a Chateauesque two-storey mansion dating from the 1870s. It is lightly screened from the road by a wrought-iron

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. The house's first owner was Prince Adam Sapieha, a pioneer of railway building in

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. After the September Campaign, the palace was taken over by the Soviet state and housed a school until a restoration campaign was launched in the 1990s. At present it is home to a regional society for preservation of historical and architectural monuments.

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* Памятники градостроительства и архитектуры Украинской ССР. Киев: Будивельник, 1983–1986. Том 3, с. 14. Houses completed in the 19th century Palaces in Ukraine Buildings and structures in Lviv Beaux-Arts architecture Sapieha {{Lviv-stub

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