Kozánek House
The house, in a late historicist style, was built in 1883 by the Kroměříž builder Antonín Zajíček. In 1894 it was bought by the lawyer JUDr. Emil Kozánek, one of the leading figures in the political, economic and national life of Kroměříž and its surroundings in the second half of the 19th century. He helped found the Občanská beseda civic club and the Moravan choral society, which he chaired for many years, and was among the founders of the Záhlinice-Kvasice agricultural union.
At the end of the 19th century the Kozánek villa became a meeting place for Czech artists. Frequent guests included the composers Antonín Dvořák, Vítězslav Novák and Pavel Kovařovic, the violinists František Ondříček and Jaroslav Kocián, the singer Ema Destinová, the actors Eduard Vojan, Hana Kvapilová and Otilie Sklenářová-Malá, and the traveller Vráz.
After 1989 the building housed various companies; later it was converted into flats. The villa stands in the buffer zone of the Kroměříž Urban Heritage Reserve.
