The Royal Castle in Warsaw
The Royal Castle in Warsaw is a baroque castle residency that formerly
served throughout the centuries as the official residence of the Polish monarchs.
It is located in the Castle Square, at the
entrance to the Warsaw Old Town.
Originally it was the residence of
the dukes of Mazovia, and since the
sixteenth century, the seat of government
of the First Republic: the King and the
Parliament. In the nineteenth century,
after the fall of the November Uprising,
designed for the Russian government. During World War I, the Governor
General's residence of the German. From 1920 to 1922 the seat of the Head of
State, 1926-1939 residence of the President of the
Polish Republic. Burned and looted by the Germans
in 1939, almost completely destroyed in 1944. After
1971 it was rebuilt and reconstructed. Today is a
historical and cultural monument of national museum
functions and representation. It is entered in the
National Register of Museums.
In 1979, the
historic Gateway Theatre in
the Jefferson Park community area of Chicago was
purchased by the Copernicus Foundation with the intention
of converting it into the seat of the Polish Cultural and
Civic Center. Because of the building's historical
significance, its interior was kept intact while the exterior
was remodelled and a Neo-Baroque clock tower was added
to give it the resemblance of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.[34] It is a visual tribute
to Chicago's large Polish populace, the largest such presence outside of the
Republic of Poland.
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