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The Habag palace, a modern office building

1919–1941 · postcard

The Agraria building, Novi Sad

1919–1941 · postcard

The Habag building, ground floor shops

1919–1941 · postcard

A Grey Print of the Produce Exchange, Cropped Close

1926 · print

Straight on to the long facade

1927

Saplings on the bare forecourt

1928–1941

A Green-Tinted Postcard of the Habag Palace

1930–1939

Album Page of Habag Palace Views, Exterior and Dining Halls

1933 · document

The unmade road across the front

1933

Habag building

1936

The Agraria Sign Along the Habag Palace Front

1938

The Habag Palace, Pedestrians Along the Pavement, 1941

by July 1941 · postcard

The former Exchange used as a police school

1941–1944 · postcard

Four Views of Novi Sad: the Banovina Tower and a V-Marked Building

1941–1945 · postcard

The Habag Palace Under a Clouded Sky, 1944

by June 1944 · postcard

Cars Outside the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, Novi Sad, 1973

1973

About this place

Trg galerija, the Square of the Galleries, lies a short walk south of the old town centre and takes its name from the three art institutions gathered around it. The block at number 1 was designed during 1926 for the Novi Sad produce and securities exchange and received its occupancy permit on 26 January 1927, with the building work carried out by the architect Filip Šmit; postcards of the following decade show the word БЕРЗА in large letters across its parapet. The Gallery of Matica Srpska moved into the former exchange in 1958 after an adaptation drawn by Ivan Zdravković, the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection opened next door at number 2 in 1961 in a building by Ivo Kurtović, and Filip Šmit's 1923 villa on the Vase Stajića corner became the Rajko Mamuzić gallery in 1974. Everything on the square is younger than the Habsburg city, and its postcards carry Serbian captions alone, Нови Сад and Берза, rather than the Hungarian and German ones printed for older streets.