KRUPOWKI then and now. Tatra Museum and Carpentry school. Zakopane hotels and apartments in the centre.

a walk along Krupówki:

Zakopane Krupowki

Zakopane Lower Krupówki,
The other side of Foluszowy Potok:

Bridge over Foluszowy Potok It used to be possible to go up the stairs next to Młyniska house to reach the other side of the stream and the Building Industry School at Krupówki number 8. Unfortunately, at the moment the passage is not available and one needs to go another 100 metres or so further up the road, past a line of souvenir stands, horse carriages stop, and go over the bridge in Zborowskiego street directly towards the Tatra Museum. We go over the bridge, past the museum and continue to number 8, the oldest Zakopane comprehensive school:

The building, constructed within a year, was designed by Antoni Łuszczkiewicz from Cracow and opened on July, 30th 1883 by the Parish Priest of Zakopane Józef Stolarczyk, with Marshall Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz present at the ceremony(...)
The carpentry school in Zakopane was established on the initiative and with funds of Tatra Society in 1876 as the first comprehensive school for the local youth. For the first five years the school operated in one of the rooms of the Kuźnice Manor House, prior to this in a small cottage in Kościeliska street. Its first teacher was Maciej Marduła from Olcza - a folk artist educated in Cracow by Franciszek Wyspiański, Stanisław's father, at the expense of the Tatra Society. In 1878 the school was nationalised, and Franciszek Neużil was nominated its headmaster. (...) In 1976 it was named after Władysław Matlakowski, a well known expert on regional architecture of Zakopane. At present, the building belongs to the local Building Industry Comprehensive School.

If we go back a few steps, we will get a chance to find out more about yet another interesting building at number 10:

Tatra Museum was named after Tytus Chałubiński. The building had been designed by Stanisław Witkiewicz much earlier on and adapted by Franciszek Mączyński. The construction started in 1913 and was supervised by Leopold Winnicki, Mączyński's colleague. The works were held up during the First World War, and shortly afterwards the investment faced some serious financial problems that threatened completion of the project. Doctor Bronisława Dłuska subsidised the venture and in 1920 the construction was completed. Collection of the first exhibition took two years, and the museum was finally opened to public on July, 22nd 1922. The museum first director was Juliusz Zborowski, (...) ethnographer, linguist and a historian, who was believed to have known everything about the Tatra mountains.

The building of former Dworzec Tatrzański (Tatra Station) at number 12 is yet another extremely interesting and grand example of local brick architecture. It used to belong to the Polish Tatra Society, today it is managed by Zakopane branch of PTTK (Polish Tourist Society) where a lot of rooms were also let out to other enterprises. (...) The name of 'station' has got nothing to the with bus or train stations as it may seem, 'dworzec' is a Polish version of the Russian 'dwór' (manor house, court).
The building was constructed by Tadeusz Prauss in 1903 according to projects of Wandalin Beringer. On the very same spot, the first and former Tatra Station had been erected in 1811 by Gustaw Finger based on Karol Zaremba project. The building was opened with a great pomp on July, 30th in 1882. the offices of Tatra Society were there, a library, rooms for ladies and gentlemen, hotel's service and storage rooms and a ballroom with piano, where lectures, concerts, shows and parties were held.
A lot of well known artists used to perform there, violinists Stanisław Barcewicz, Fritz Kreisler, Wladysław Górski, Mieczysław Karłowicz, pianists Raul Koczalski, Aleksander Michałowski, Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Helena Modrzejewska recited poetry there and Henryk Sienkiewicz read episodes of his novels. The Station used to host annual meetings of the Tatra Society and numerous parties and balls mainly organised to raise money for charity. It was during one of those balls, on January 21st 1900 the building burned down completely form an oil lamp.
(...) On July, 1st 1903 a new Tatra Station was opened on the very same spot, which was an attempt to incorporate traditional features of local Zakopane style into needs and requirements of brick constructions. Former cultural traditions of the Tatra Society casino did not manage to revitalise within the new building. Tatra Station was once again a place of splendour during the inter war period when there was a library there managed by Jerzy Gawliński.