Buildings in Ljubljana that were constructed or co financed by Josip Gorup materialise the urban, building, architectural and other ideas of the owner and his counsellors. They marked the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries in the architecture of the Austro-Hungarian Ljubljana. Particular attention is paid to Gorup 's houses at the southern corner of the close-knit town centre that serve as the starting point of the central city axis, which was rearranged after the earthquake in 1895. The paper re-examines the preliminary findings for the conservation of the City Girls' Lyceum, which was designed by the architect Maks Fabiani and (co-)financed by Josip Gorup. The lyceum was set up as the firs lay secondary schoolfor girls in Ljubljana, at a specially designated location at the periphery of the ring. The facade of the former lyceum is adorned by a relieffeaturing the coats of arms of Carniola and Ljubljana, and young Slav girls. It was characteristic of Gorup that he consistently, almost tenaciously, pursued a set goal, even for twenty years or more, and patiently financed it. Twenty-eight years elapsed from conceiving to completing Gorup's houses and a little lessfrom the first idea for the establishment of the Mladika society in 1886 to the completion of the boarding school in 1912.