A real photo card of the two-storey endowment block, with the founder's name printed along the bottom margin in Cyrillic and Latin together. The corner is turned by a polygonal oriel under a domed cap and a balustraded gable, and the whole ground floor is opened up as an arcade of round-arched bays let out to shops: Konkordija takes the corner and a printing house has the sign over a bay down the long side. Painted lettering runs along the wall beneath the eaves, and a few children stand about under the arches.
About this place
The house was the largest endowment of Marija Trandafil, a Novi Sad landowner who died in 1883 after making her whole estate over to Matica srpska, and it was built to keep orphaned and poor Serbian Orthodox children. It went up in 1912 on the plot of the old caravanserai that had burned when the city was shelled in 1849, to a design by Momčilo Tapavica, a Novi Sad architect who had taken third place in tennis at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Postcards of 1915 and 1916 name the street Szűcs utca and Ћурчиска улица, the furriers' street, and label the building szerb szegényház in Hungarian and Сиротиште in Serbian. The children were moved out in 1928 and Matica srpska took the premises for itself; the building stands at Matice srpske 1, on the corner of the square that has carried Marija Trandafil's name since 2001.
On the card
НОВИ САД — NOVI SAD / Задужбина Марије Трандафил — Zadužbina Marije Trandafil
Novi Sad. The Marija Trandafil endowment
- Date
- 1931
- Coordinates
- 45.25909, 19.84510
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1786 × 1150 px
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