PETRA DRAPSINA 48

At the corner of Petra Drapšina and Laze Kostića streets stands a tall, ground-level eclectic-style house with prominent Neo-Gothic elements. In the land registry from 1906, it is recorded under the name Lebenberger Mor, who is also listed as the owner in the 1909 Novi Sad address book.

The house is dominant and striking in its design. The risalit sections feature large Neo-Gothic windows, and below the roof cornice is a massive projecting cornice decorated with a frieze of pointed arches and gables shaped like so-called “donkey backs”. At the corner rises a bulky four-pitched dome, covered with zinc sheet metal cut to resemble scales.

The façades of the wings are symmetrically designed, with twisted pilasters and capitals inspired by Gothic models.

The windows and entrance doors share the same design pattern, with architrave pediments and small brackets supporting the sills.

Below the windows are basement openings, and along the attic extension runs a row of small ornate brackets.

The house was designed to make maximum use of a small plot, which left a very narrow courtyard. In the 1980s, a layer of floral wall decoration was discovered on the façade, in two distinct motifs—a rare example of painted façades in Novi Sad, which still awaits restoration today.

The realisation of this site was supported by the Administration for Culture of the City of Novi Sad

The sources and materials of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Novi Sad were used for the realization of this website

The Old Core of Novi Sad was declared a cultural asset, by the decision on establishing it as a spatial cultural-historical unit – 05 no. 633-151/2008 of January 17, 2008, “Sl. gazette of the Republic of Serbia” no. 07/2008.