Queen Elisabeth Almshouse
Queen Elisabeth Almshouse

Author(s): Sidonia Teodorescu
Subject(s): Architecture
Published by: INCD URBAN-INCERC
Keywords: Ion D. Berindey; Queen Elisabeth Almshouse; neo-Romanian style; early twentieth century
Summary/Abstract: Ion D. Berindey (1871-1928) graduated the Belle Arte School in Paris in 1897. Five years later ″Queen Elisabeth” Society put him in charge with the design of an almshouse, which was built in a pavilion system with Neo-Romanian elements of style. Although Ion D. Berindey’s most famous public building is the Palace of Culture in Iaşi (completed in 1925), I shall hereinafter focus Queen Elisabeth Almshouse, one of his almost unknown works.

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