HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
ROYAL PALACE AND PROVINCIAL TREASURY
1901
Located in Andrey Sakharov
Square. It functioned as a palace until 1918. Construction began in 1900 and
was completed in 1901. The building is two-story with a basement and has a
complex geometric floor plan. The main entrance is from Nalbandyan Street, featuring
a vestibule and a three-flight staircase.
On the first and second floors
were the departments and accounting rooms, cash offices, the officials’ hall,
and the private offices of the manager and the treasurer, as well as other
service rooms. The ground floor housed rooms for couriers and messengers, the
archive, and auxiliary spaces.
The southeastern wing stands
out from the main structure in both design and appearance, featuring a
staircase. Two separate entrances from Andrey Sakharov Square led to the
apartments of the treasurer and the manager.
The building is constructed of
roughly hewn tuff, while the street-facing facades are clad in Yerevan black
tuff. The balconies are wooden.
The building is valuable as an
architectural monument of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Particularly
noteworthy is the glazed balcony, which is the only preserved example of this
type of architecture from that period in Yerevan.
