HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
RESIDENTIAL (APARTMENT) HOUSE
Beginning of the XX century
State index: 1․6․21
Architect: Boris Mehrabyan
The two-storey building is located at No. 3 of Agathangeghos (former Pochtovaya, 26 Commissars) street, in vicinity with the “Ayrarat” (“Russia”) cinema. It was constructed in 1906-1911, according to the project of the Yerevan’s master plan’s author, city technician Boris Mehrabyan. According to Yerevan’s 1905-1908 real estate estimation bulletin, the house belonged to the Babaevs family, had 19 rooms, a kitchen and a plot of land next to the house. It represented by itself a profitable house with multifunctional business areas, and accordingly brought a pure income of 3750 rubles.
It belonged to Karagashyan family in the period of the establishment of the Soviet regime. It was nationalized in 1925. In the same year, there were workshops on the first floor of the house, and an operating orphanage on the second floor. During the 1980s the building served as a No16 professional technical school. Now it operates as a minstrelsy school named after Jivani (founded in 1997). The plan of the building is a stretched rectangle. The rooms are oriented to the street direction from the southeast and to the yard from the northwest. The façade looking at the street is covered with Yerevanian smooth tuff and is also sculptured.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
