HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

1898

State index: 1.6.203.7.1

Project author: Yerevan provincial engineer Mikhail Von der Nonne

The house, built of Yerevan black tuff, is located at 30 (1) Hanrapetutyan Street, at the corner of its intersection with Tigran Mets Avenue. It adjoins Von der Nonne’s first house.

The house project was approved in January 1898. It was built in the same year. In 1899, the building was handed over to the Poltava Regiment for religious purposes. The provincial printing house operated in the annex.

In 1916, Von der Nonne’s houses were sold to Alexander and Artavazd Azizyants. In 1923, they were nationalized, after which this house was given to the military department and the headquarters of the Armenian division (until 1937). Hayk Bjshkyan worked in the building in 1922-1923.

The building has an L-shaped plan (16.3 x 11.4 m), a basement, and is two-storied. In the main building, the interior space is divided by a corridor system. The rooms face northwest (street) and southeast (courtyard). The corridor communicates with Von der Nonne’s neighboring first house. The cantilever balcony of the second floor is oriented towards the street. The northwest facade is divided into 3 parts by slightly pronounced vertical articulations. The compositional solution is symmetrical, with projections enhanced by pediments above the crowning cornice. The symmetry is emphasized by a suspended balcony with an openwork metal grating. All openings (rectangular on the first floor, arched and semicircular on the second floor) are processed with roughly hewn stone. There are niches under the windows of the second floor, and on the first floor - four-sided prismatic stones. The composition is completed with a broken cornice. The ceiling is flat, with wooden beams, and there are stone vaults in the basements. The roof is sloped and made of tin.

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality