At the beginning of the 20th century, industrialist Izaak Stein built a steam mill, a warehouse and a wooden villa (later changed to a brick one) on the side of Artyleryjska Street. A railway siding was also built on the premises. The mill operated throughout the entire war as part of the enterprise ‘Department Store & Transport Office – Izaak Sztejn & Son’, which even opened a branch in Gdynia. After the war, the plants were transferred to the’Społem’ Cooperative. In 1947, the estate was nationalized. The land was leased by ‘Społem’ and ‘Polmozbyt’. Today, it is the seat of various private companies.

Krakowska Street, which separates two decorative tenement houses, was initially called Moesowska due to the presence of the Moes family in this part of the city – German manufacturers from Zgierz, who created a textile empire in nearby Choroszcz. The taller tenement house was built by Karol August Moes at the beginning of the 20th century and then sold to the merchant Henryk Weltman. The premises were rented here by better-off townspeople. The second tenement house is a building of Markus Reniewicki from the 1870s, purchased in turn by Karol August Moes for use as a sales office and goods warehouse.

Izrael Trylling came to Białystok in the 1860s. After 30 years, his family already owned two textile factories at Nowy Świat and Lipowa streets. Chaim Abram, Izrael’son, began building a new family estate in 1898. He died shortly thereafter, and the palace was finished by his widow, Helena (Elena). The initials ET are still visible on the facade. The residence was one of the most expensive on the then Warszawska Street. In the 1930s, the family sold the property to the Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń Wzajemnych (General Mutual Insurance Company) and left for the USA. After the war, the State Treasury placed a tourist house there. At the moment, the palace is privately owned.

The new housing estate hidden behind the basilisk sculpture incorporates the former production buildings of the tobacco factory. Janowski’s company offered a wide range of products: cigarettes (‘Pije Kuba do Jakuba’, ‘Biełastok’, ‘Parisiana’), cigars, tobacco (‘Zorza’, ‘Adonis’) and snuff. The factory employed mainly women, who in the last years of the 19th century carried out a successful strike, asking the police chiefs to arrest them so that they could explain their absence from work. In 1924, the factory was nationalized. The State Tobacco Factory was one of the largest industrial plants in interwar Białystok.

In the years 1900-1909, power plant buildings were built on the site of the former palace pond and a city garden was established. A new street was marked out: Elektryczna, which separated the industrial part from the recreational part. In 1913, the Białystok Electricity Society was established, managing the power plant until 1939. The president of the company was engineer Kazimierz Riegert. The interwar period saw the expansion of the power plant and the creation of new transmission lines to nearby towns. The retreating German troops took away the machines and destroyed the halls. One of the preserved buildings is the seat of the Arsenal Gallery.

At the end of the 19th century, Eugeniusz Becker, an industrialist from Prussia, and other textile tycoons founded the ‘The Białystok Manufactory Society Eugeniusz Becker and Co.’ Becker’s factory became the property of the Society. In 1914, it employed around 600 people, and the silk and wool produced here were sold on eastern markets. After World War II, the plant was taken over by the state and continued to produce fabrics. Currently, the three-storey former warehouse building and stables are part of a shopping centre. On top of the warehouse is a sculpture of Mercury, the patron saint of trade. The ornate palace was the seat of the Society’s Board.

Tucked away behind the shops, the building is worth walking around. It probably dates back to the mid-19th century and was surrounded by a large garden. It is one of the few preserved manor houses of this type in the city. The property was owned by the family until the 1950s.

The Chaim Nowik cloth factory was founded in the mid-19th century. The buildings were built in stages and resembled Łódź factory complexes. After expansion at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, hats were also produced here for world markets, and Nowik became a tycoon employing around 400 people. However, fate loomed over the family – four of Chaim’;s sons died within seven years of the end of World War I. After World War II, the complex became part of the Białystok Wool Industry Plants named after director Sierżan. At the beginning of the 21st century, some of the buildings were demolished to make way for the construction of a shopping centre. The weaving mill building, the water tower and the hat production building (currently a school) have survived.

In 1860, Ewald Hasbach, a clothier from the Rhineland, became the manager of the Moes factory in nearby Choroszcz. After marrying Moes’ niece, Ewald leased land in Dojlidy from Count Kruzensztern. He established a cloth and tricot factory and built a villa. His son, Artur, expanded the factory and the family home. During World War I, the estate was requisitioned by the Russians, and Artur left for Russia. Upon his return, he found a post-German plywood factory there. He decided to continue plywood production. In the 1930s, the factory was declared bankrupt and the assets were taken over by the state. The plant is currently called ‘Biaform SA Plywood Industry Plants’. Right next to the factory, in the 1870s, Artur Hasbach built 11 houses for workers.

In the 1860s, the senator of the Russian Empire, Alexander Kruzensztern, transformed the area of ​​the former Branicki family farm, establishing a park and erecting a neo-Renaissance villa. He passed the estate to his daughter, Zofia Rudiger, who hosted Tsar Nicholas II there in 1897. In 1921, the countess sold the property to a bank. The palace was bought by Prince Jerzy Rafał Lubomirski, who expanded the nearby brewery, making it the largest brewery in this part of Poland. During World War II, the villa was the seat of Erich Koch, the Supreme President of East Prussia and the head of the Bezirk Białystok district. After the war, it belonged to an agricultural school and a university. Currently, it is privately owned.