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Adam Osser's Factory - a historic building located at 222 Jana Kilińskiego Street in Łódź.

The plant was built in 1903 for Adam Osser, honorary councillor of the magistrate and honorary consul of the Kingdom of Italy. Osser employed 364 people. During World War II the Germans dismantled textile machines and started to produce parts for airplanes and cars. After the end of the war, this production profile was maintained and the factory was named "Polmo" Car Accessories Factory.

The spinning mill building, stylized as a defensive structure (a combination of Neo-Gothic and Art Nouveau), is one of the examples of pre-war industrial architecture in Łódź.

In front of the main building, on the corner of the current J. Kilińskiego and S. Przybyszewskiego Streets (formal current address: J. Kilińskiego 220), the cantor building (management office) of the factory was constructed according to Szai Marguliesa's design. It was the youngest building in the complex. Since about 1923, the building also housed the Honorary Consulate of the Kingdom of Italy. Since the fall of the factory in the mid-1990s, it has been falling into increasing ruin. In 1998 it was set on fire by unknown perpetrators and soon afterwards it was demolished.

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Description
Adam Osser's Factory - a historic building located at 222 Jana Kilińskiego Street in Łódź.

The plant was built in 1903 for Adam Osser, honorary councillor of the magistrate and honorary consul of the Kingdom of Italy. Osser employed 364 people. During World War II the Germans dismantled textile machines and started to produce parts for airplanes and cars. After the end of the war, this production profile was maintained and the factory was named "Polmo" Car Accessories Factory.

The spinning mill building, stylized as a defensive structure (a combination of Neo-Gothic and Art Nouveau), is one of the examples of pre-war industrial architecture in Łódź.

In front of the main building, on the corner of the current J. Kilińskiego and S. Przybyszewskiego Streets (formal current address: J. Kilińskiego 220), the cantor building (management office) of the factory was constructed according to Szai Marguliesa's design. It was the youngest building in the complex. Since about 1923, the building also housed the Honorary Consulate of the Kingdom of Italy. Since the fall of the factory in the mid-1990s, it has been falling into increasing ruin. In 1998 it was set on fire by unknown perpetrators and soon afterwards it was demolished.

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