City Hall Botosani, Northeast Romania, Romania
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City Hall Botoșani
The edifice we see today was built at the end of the eighteenth century in an eclectic style of German influence. In the middle of the 19th century, the building housed the Court's seat. Mihai Eminescu himself worked here for a short period as an employee of the Tribunal as a copist, between October 1864 and March 1865. The monument of secular architecture, built by Enache Codrescu around 1800 in the Neoclassical style of the Sharps. The house is bought on 5 December 1842 by the hatman Anastasie Başotă for the sum of 40,000 lei. In 1850, the prince Grigore Ghica, visiting the Botosani, and seeing that there is a lack of a house for the administrative institutions and other authorities in this town, buys the house with the sum of 2,000 yellow and gives it to Botosani. In October 1864, when Mihai Eminescu became a copist in court, several buildings of the city of Botosani were located in this building: the Prefecture, the County Court, the Municipality, the Police and the Fire Brigade. The building was restored for the first time between 1900-1914. The refurbished architecture still preserves the kind of boyish house attached to the ancient mansions of the 19th century. XVII-XVIII with a high and portico floor with arcades in front of the main entrance, designed to pass the carriages. In 2008, extensive renovation works were launched with the reconstruction of the building's resistance structure recognized as a true symbol of Botoşani municipality.
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, Botosani, Romania.
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