A spread eagle is carved in relief in the tympanum over the four Doric columns of the portico, with a balustraded terrace on the entablature below it and three tall arched windows in the storey behind. Company has gathered on the gravel, civilians in overcoats and soft felt hats, officers in uniform, a boy holding a bicycle, and a carriage waiting at the end of the drive. The kerbing is new, stone balls sit on fresh plinths and the ground has not been made up, so this was taken as the building came into use.
About this place
The Officers' House stands on the Belgrade Quay along the Danube in Novi Sad. The army decided to build it in 1923 to a design by Jurij Nikolajevič Šreter, a Russian émigré military engineer; fire damaged the works in 1924, and Aleksandar Šumaher and Mihajlo Plavec reworked the project so that the building was completed in 1925 and 1926. It was put up in a classicist manner modelled on the villas of Odesa, with Doric columns, a broad terrace and a triangular pediment. The ceremonial hall on the upper floor held balls, formal dinners and officers' gatherings, and the building is known today as the Dom vojske, the Army House.
- Date
- 1926
- Coordinates
- 45.25693, 19.85434
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1080 × 687 px
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