The Zeki Kadirbeyzade mansion

Explanation : The mansion was built in 1862 and belongs to Kadirbeyzade Zeki Bey, who represented Gümüşhane (as the Gümüşhane and Torul delegate) in the Erzurum Conress convened in Erzurum on 23 July 1919. It shows a different style from the regional architecture in terms of plan and façade characteristics; it has a hipped-roof with a slope of 33%. The roof is covered with tiles, the building is closed to the outside because of the climatic conditions of the region, and instead of a closed bay window on one side (if any) it has four closed bay windows on four sides which are pretty open to the outside (photos 36, 37).  On the upper floor, there is an inner sofa with four large rooms and one small room around it, and a staircase. The entrance to the ground floor is on the east side and outside the entrance is an open space covered with stones. The carvings that constitute the decorations on the façade are above the windows below the eaves and on the baroque arches. They are taken from the Quran and they are of great cultural and historical value (Photo 38). Stone material was used on the ground floor and adobe material was used as the filling between the wooden material in the lath and plaster system on the upper floor, and the façade is whitewashed with lime over mud plaster. A domed Turkish bath parallel to the front façade and near the house is another characteristic of the building (Photo 39). Although some elements and details that show the general characteristics of the building (wall cabinet, cupboard and some elements like wooden ceiling carvings in baroque style) have partly come down to us, the building today is about to collapse. The accumulated soil and growing plants both in the house and the Turkish bath should be cleaned immediately and restitution, reintegration and reconstruction works should be carried out.

Front facade

Plan

Photos

The Turkish bath in the garden of the mansion

The northeastern façade of the mansion

The northern façade and the accord with the slope of the ground