HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

1895

The building is located on Hanrapetutyan Street. It was constructed between the second revenue house of Yerevan Provincial Engineer von der Nonne and the building of the Yerevan Provincial Administration.

The building project was approved by the city administration in February 1895, and construction was carried out in the same year. In 1916, von der Nonne’s houses were sold to Alexander and Artavazd Azizyants. In 1923, they were nationalized.

It is a two-storey building with a basement. In plan, it has a three-part composition consisting of the main volume, a side wing, and a slightly projecting entrance hall with a stairwell facing the courtyard. The main block, together with the entrance hall, stretches along the length of the street. Inside, rooms are arranged on both sides of a longitudinal corridor: one row is oriented toward the northwest (street), and the other toward the southeast (courtyard). On the upper floor there is a cantilever balcony facing the street.

On the first floor, the rectangular openings are framed with roughly dressed stone, while on the second floor they are surrounded by framed rectangular surrounds, above which brackets support decorative window cornices. The strongly expressed crowning cornice rests on geometric modillions, between which round and rectangular flat inserts alternate. The frieze is outlined with an original frame. The areas beneath the windows are decorated with geometric patterns. The façade is completed by an attic divided with projections and recesses.

Today, the building houses the Armenian office of the Supreme Body of the ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation) and the “Simon Vratsian” Center.