HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

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ROYAL PALACE AND PROVINCIAL TREASURY


1901


State index: 1.6.102.4

Architect: Vasily Mirzoyan, N. Kitkin


Located in the southeastern corner of Andrei Sakharov Square at 48 Nalbandyan Street. It functioned as a palace until 1918, then, during the years of the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920), the building also housed the Ministry of Finance. Later it was allocated for a hospital, administrative institutions (Ministry of Food Supply, etc.). Construction began in 1900 and was completed in 1901.


It is a two-story building with a basement. The plan has a complex geometric shape. The main entrance is from Nalbandyan Street, with a lobby and a three-flight staircase. On the first and second floors are departments and accounting rooms, cash vaults, an official hall, offices of the manager and treasurer, as well as other service rooms. In the basement are rooms for couriers and messengers, an archive, auxiliary areas, etc. The southeastern wing of the building is separated from the main volume by its solution and appearance with a staircase. From Andrei Sakharov Square, two separate entrances lead to the apartments of the treasurer and the manager: each is allocated one floor. The building is constructed of roughly hewn tuff. The street-facing facades are faced with black Yerevan tuff. The balconies are wooden.


The building is valuable as an architectural monument of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Notable is the glazed balcony, which is the only preserved example of architecture from that period in the city of Yerevan.

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality


48 Nalbandyan Str.