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The House of National Health, Health Centre, Novi Sad, 1919–1941

Raw ground before the colonnade

1923

House of Public Health on Mali Liman

1925–1929

The House of Public Health, the full front

1925-1941

A Blue-Tinted Postcard of the Health Centre

1926

View from Prince Tomislav Bridge

1928

Queen Mary Boulevard's Three Public Buildings, 1930

1930

Queen Mary Boulevard before the Banovina

1932–1936

Danube Panorama Toward Novi Sad, Bridge in the Foreground

by May 1941 · postcard

Four views: National Flag Square, the post office, Health Palace

1941–1945 · postcard

Nine Views of Novi Sad, Centred on National Flag Square, 1942

1942. · postcard

A Zastava on Marshal Tito Boulevard

1969

About this place

The Health Centre in Novi Sad was built in 1923 to a design by Jurij Nikolajevič Šreter, a Russian émigré military engineer who was working in the city in those years. He drew the Officers' House on the Belgrade Quay at the same period, and the two buildings share a classicist manner; this archive's catalogue describes the Health Centre as being in the spirit of Russian classicism. Postcards of it circulate with dates of 1923 and 1926. The building was begun in 1923 and finished about two years later, among the first put up on the reclaimed ground of Mali Liman after the flood terrain along the Danube was filled in, and it has never changed use. Konstantin Petrovič Parizo de la Valet worked with Šreter on it and on the Officers' House; the two were Russian émigré designers whose work in the city drew on the classicism of the cities they had left. Six massive Ionic columns rise through the first and second floors, and the composition has been described as a reduced replica of the Senate and Synod in St Petersburg. Some sources give the architect's forename as Georgije rather than Jurij. The facade was restored in 2013 and the building is protected by the city's institute for the preservation of monuments.