Krsmanović house

Krsmanović's house
	; Krsmanović's house
Data
place	Belgrade , Serbia
architect	Jovan Ilkić
Construction year	1885

The house of Krsmanović (also House of Aleksa Krsmanović ) was built in 1885 and is located at Terazije 34 in Belgrade .

history

The house was built according to the plans of the architect Jovan Ilkić in the academic style as a residence for the merchant Marko O. Marković. The Krsmanović brothers bought the house and land in 1898. After the division, Aleksa Krsmanović got the house, in which he lived until his death in 1914. He left the house and the entire property to the Serbian people. After his death, the house and all the land on Terazije became the property of the “A. Krsmanović Cooperative”. According to his will, his wife continued to live in the house. After her death, it passed to the founder. Due to its representative character, after the First World War , it served as the Royal Palace of the Serbian Kingdom from 1918 to 1922, in which the regent Aleksandar Karadjordjević resided, as the Royal Palace was quite damaged. On December 1, 1918, the document establishing the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was signed in this house .

After 1930 the restaurant "Kleridž" was housed here and then for a while the Branino Pozorište Theater (by Brana Cvetković).

architecture

The representative building with a hillside location is single-story on the street side and two-story on the garden side. On the garden side, there is a large terrace above the basement at street level and two curved open stairs lead into the garden. The balustrades of the terrace and the stairs are in the Baroque style. In terms of shape and design, the building is considered to be one of the architect's best-executed projects. The house was nationalized after the Second World War and became state property . For a long time it served as the protocol building for the State Department.