# The Merchant Youths' Home

Also called: Dom novosadske trgovačke omladine, Kereskedő ifjak otthona, Haus der Kaufmannsjugend.

A rounded corner block on the boulevard at the junction with Ignjata Pavlasa, built as the home of the Novi Sad commercial youth and carrying that title cut in Cyrillic across its cornice, which is among the longest surviving public inscriptions on any facade in the city and is legible in this archive's photographs of it. Đorđe Tabaković designed it, work began on 7 May 1931 and the building was finished about a year later, paid for largely by the merchants' association; the Novi Sad merchants Nikola Tanurdžić and Miloš Raletić are the two most credited with bringing it about. Money ran short and it went up without its intended left wing. King Alexander I attended the dedication in the summer of 1934. It was among the first buildings of the new quarter laid out south of the old centre in the 1930s, twice the height of what stood there before, with an undecorated front and reinforced concrete used in part, and it set the scale for the whole boulevard. A reclining figure of Mercury, the god of commerce, stands on its roofline above the lettering, and shops ran along its ground floor under awnings. The interior was finished after the shell, and the building was formally opened on 10 June 1934. After the Second World War it was nationalised and the city pharmacy opened on the ground floor, a use the corner still has. In the 1960s a wing and a further storey were added, so a photograph showing the building at its original height is earlier than that work.

## Pictures (41)

- [Modern Novi Sad: a Curved Building, a Column and a Boulevard Corner](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/1e1972ed4276/index.md), 1919–1941
- [Petrovaradin Fortress and Two of Novi Sad's Modern Avenues](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/f5ed577e0e66/index.md), 1919–1941
- [Petrovaradin fortress from the road bridge, with the modern boulevards](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/58cd0cb054c6/index.md), 1919–1941
- [Queen Mary Boulevard, Novi Sad, Restamped with Its Hungarian Name](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/4aa799e08199/index.md), 1919–1941
- [The Administrative Palace after rain](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/2b2f4ed6b9a9/index.md), 1919–1941
- [The Administrative Palace down a tree-lined avenue](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/2e8d72845bb4/index.md), 1919–1941
- [The Administrative Palace, a Parked Car by the Plaza](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/cdc634bc9be4/index.md), 1919–1941
- [The Danube Banovina Administration Palace along its avenue](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/d4e6a2968e6d/index.md), 1919–1941
- [The Danube Banovina Administration Palace, Novi Sad, with a biplane overhead](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/6433225dd2e9/index.md), 1919–1941
- [Queen Mary Boulevard before the Banovina](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/7952179b85d2/index.md), 1932–1936
- [Asphalting the road](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/b3d40ea2b0ff/index.md), 1939
- [The curved block on raw ground](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/32c7152a5a05/index.md), 1940
- [A Sculpted Figure Group on the Boulevard Corner Parapet](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/afa3419c8c9a/index.md), 1941–1944
- [Five Views: Horthy Miklós Avenue and Novi Sad's Public Buildings](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/0cfc3041163f/index.md), 1941–1944
- [Greetings from Novi Sad: City Hall, Cathedral and Banovina Palace](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/19637867b2ea/index.md), 1941–1945
- [Nine Views: Town Hall, the Klein Corner and Petrovaradin Fortress](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/14f3838b1977/index.md), by December 1941
- [Novi Sad Details: a Boulevard, City Hall and the Banovina Palace](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/5c48fc7c072b/index.md), 1941–1945
- [Novi Sad in Four Views: a Civic Building, the Palace and the Fortress](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/8d091313014b/index.md), 1941–1945
- [Novi Sad: a cinema, the Cathedral and the Banovina Palace tower](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/718b01b7b4a0/index.md), 1941–1945
- [Queen Mary Boulevard, Cattle Being Driven Past the Roundabout](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/80165b3f66d7/index.md), by May 1941
- [Queen Mary Boulevard, a Horse Cart Crossing the Roundabout](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/fa65dd21c358/index.md), by April 1941
- [The Ban's Palace, Horthy Miklós Avenue and the Main Square](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/c7072e2cec6c/index.md), 1941–1944
- [The Ban's Palace, and two unidentified buildings](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/66b09037eb4a/index.md), 1941–1945
- [The Banovina Palace, Novi Sad, with Its Tower and Statued Neighbor](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/caa05893d3ae/index.md), 1941–1945
- [The Banovina Palace, a Curved Modern Building, Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/e76cc55d3f61/index.md), 1941–1945
- [The Commercial Youth Association Building on Queen Mary Boulevard](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/21e10ec7c583/index.md), by April 1941
- [The Former Ban's Office Palace, Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/a77c85f7ce82/index.md), by July 1941
- [The Former Banovina Palace, Novi Sad (Zima Karoly Edition)](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/be3a56b92431/index.md), 1941–1945
- [The former Banovina Palace, Novi Sad, under Hungarian occupation](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/dd900a9622d8/index.md), 1941–1945
- [Tree-Lined Avenue Beside a Rooftop Statue, 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/b33ff3b068f4/index.md), by July 1941
- [Tree-Lined Boulevard Toward the Pharmacy Corner Building, 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/df23c4325f8a/index.md), by June 1941
- [Four Views: Town Hall Square, a Modern Tower and the Agraria Block](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/e9f0537e2bf7/index.md), by August 1942
- [Horthy Boulevard](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/34c00ca0625a/index.md), 1942
- [Horthy Miklós Avenue, the Corner Building's Shopfronts, 1942](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/26e3fa52ef62/index.md), by July 1942
- [Nine Views of Novi Sad, Centred on National Flag Square, 1942](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/a3b532f209e5/index.md), 1942.
- [The Administrative Palace, the Workers' Home and the Rex Palace](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/ac403189f7a9/index.md), by July 1942
- [The Administrative Palace, the Merchant Youths' Home Beyond, 1943](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/921005f39d62/index.md), by March 1943
- [The Merchant Youths' Home on Horthy Miklós Avenue, 1943](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/fecf6fc806d8/index.md), by September 1943
- [Nine Views of Novi Sad, Centred on the Town Hall, 1944](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/99e4e1a9684d/index.md), by February 1944
- [Three cyclists outside the pharmacy](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/bc2aefc35a7c/index.md), around 1950
- [The Albus sign above the boulevard](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/e8c1bc1c268e/index.md), 1970s

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