Silvestr Havryshkevych

Silvester Havryshkevych (1833-1911) was a Lviv architect.

He studied at the Lviv Technical Academy in 1855-1860. From 1863 he worked in the building department of the Galician governorate. From 1874 he worked as an engineer. In 1878 he became a member of the Polytechnic Society in Lviv.

He designed and restored monuments: the building of the National House for the head of the Academic Gymnasium, the library and the Ukrainian Theater "Ruska Besida" on Teatralna str. 22 (1851-64; co-author with V. Schmidt), the bell tower of the Holy Spirit Church (1862), the Korniakt Tower (1880), the Metropolitan's Palace at St. George's Cathedral (1885). He supervised the construction of the Galician governorate at 18 V. Vynnychenka Street (1877-84; designed by F. Ksenzharsky). He built the church according to his own designs in the late Empire, Neo-Gothic and Neo-Renaissance styles: Transfiguration Church at 21 Krakivska Street.

Died in Lviv, buried at Lychakiv Cemetery, field # 75[5] In 1993, a street in Lviv was named after Sylvester Havryshkevych.