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Dwelling House (Armenian), the XVI-XIX centuries. Preservation Number #1657 | Foto
4 Hospital'na St.

Primarily its dimensions were 6.5�9.5 m, they correspond to the western part of the present building. It had one overland storey and a spacious basement on two levels. In 1620, near the south-eastern wall the other house of a similar size was built on. In the second half of the XVII century, both houses were one-storeyed with basements and span roofs. At the end of the XVII century, the house, which had been built in 1620, was damaged in its south-western part. While restoring at the end of the XVIII-beginning of the XIX century, both buildings were united into one and were built on in the north-eastern direction; there was also a second brick storey built on.
A two-storeyed, right-angled in its plan, plastered, covered with a span iron roof. The walls of the basement and of the first floor are stone, the walls of the second floor are brick. The basements are covered with semicircular vaults. The basement consists of 5 lodgements, 2 of which (south-western) belong to the ancient houses. The ground floor is devided by one longitudinal and two transverse walls on 7 lodgements, situating symmetrical reltively to the longitudinal wall. The first floor doesn't connect with the ground floor in its plan.
On the north-western front the outdoor two-flights stairs on the first floor were added. Under it there is one of the entrances to the basements, the other one is in one of the lodgements of the eastern part of the house, the third one is on the south-western front.
In the western basement of the house the white-stone potral with the arched bulkhead and the inside stone stairs has remained. In the adjoining, south-western basement under several layers of the late plaster the painting in the form of the geometrized plant ornamental pattern in ochre-blue gamma was found. In the interior of the ground floor two columns has remained, they belonged to the small gallery of the house in 1620.
This monument is an example of early Armenian stone dwelling of the town and demonstrates the character of its evolution.

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Translated by Yana Anufriyeva
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