Status Cultural Heritage Country Serbia Opened 1872 | Location Belgrade Completed 1872 | |
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Nikola Pašić's House (Serbian: Кућа Николе Пашића/Kuća Nikole Pašića) in Belgrade, at the 22nd French Street, has the status of the cultural monument.
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Introduction
The house was built as the corner house with the basement, ground floor and mansard. It was erected around 1872 on the property of brothers Nikola and Kosta Džango, famous merchants from Dorćol, as the single-family house with the garden on the already regulated lot enclosed with the present streets Gospodar Jevremova, Francuska, Dositejeva and Simina. According to the data from the Nikola Pašić's familу archive, he purchased the brothers Džango's house after their death on public auction organized by the police of Dorćol block in 1893. After the thorough reconstruction in 1893, Pašić moved in and stayed there until he died in 1926.
Architecture
In the period between two world wars, more precisely in 1921–1922, the reconstruction of the house was done, when its appearance was changed a lot. The courtyard wing was added and the additional floor was erected on one part of the house. As the part of that same project only a few years later, the central heating was installed in the house, as well as the hot water supply. The facade plastics was added subsequently: columns with pedestals and capitals, balustrade at the end of the first floor and the beginning of the mansard and ornaments above the openings. The present appearance, the interior and exterior decoration were conducted after the ideas of Nikola Pašić, who was an engineer by vocation, and after the design of the architect Marijan Vujović. The building was built in bricks, the ground floor was made of stone blocks, whereas the roof was covered with eternit (roof panels). The fence towards the street was also made of stone blocks, which initiates their erection at the same time. A white marble plaque was placed on the facade in 1936, by the Local board of Yugoslav Radical Party in Belgrade, as a memorial to the most important political person of the newer history, Nikola Pašić, who lived, created and died in that house.
Importance
Along with the undeniable personal touch that Nikola Pašić gave to the appearance and decoration of the house, it was at the same time the home of the long-time President of the Council of Ministers, a diplomat, a Minister of Foreign Affairs and the President of the Radical Party, and as such it was open for foreign statesmen, diplomats, reporters, in a word, famous local and foreign persons from the political and social life of Serbia and Europe. From the aspect of the cultural heritage the construction of the house is related to the beginning of the organization of the old Dorćol and the streets regulation in this part of the town, after the idea of Emilijan Josimović. The house represents the synthesis of different values, in urban position, distinctive architecture and interior, and especially in long-time dwelling and life of Nikola Pašić, which is why the house was designated as the cultural monument.