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Szűcs Street and the Serbian poorhouse, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

The Marija Trandafil Serbian Orthodox Orphanage

1913

Tram Tracks Curving Past the Marija Trandafil Orphanage Gate

by November 1914 · postcard

Tram wires over the orphanage

1916

Pašićeva Street toward Saint George Cathedral

1930s

The Marija Trandafil Endowment, Its Arcade Let to a Printing House and Konkordija

1931 · postcard

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.