Piotr Michałowski Street in Kraków is a street in Kraków, in District I Old Town, in Piasek.
It runs from Karmelicka Street in a south-western direction to the intersection with Czarnowiejska and Dolnych Młynów streets.
Historia.
The street was laid out at the end of the 19th century. Originally, it was called Graniczna Street due to its location on the then outskirts of the city, near its administrative boundaries. The street received its current name in 1913. It commemorates the Kraków painter Piotr Michałowski, the founder of the St. Joseph's Institute for Orphaned Boys located nearby on Karmelicka Street.
Buildings.
The buildings along the street are predominantly tenement houses constructed in the 1890s and early 20th century, designed in historicist styles.