PETRA DRAPSINA 50

This two-story house with a mansard roof was built in 1930 for Milan Grujić, based on a 1929 design by architect Jovan Melka. It is located at the corner with Laze Kostića Street.

The rounded corner is emphasized by a window and a semicircular balcony with a striking decorative iron railing.

The façades are rhythmically articulated with a series of window openings, pilasters with unusual capitals, and ornaments in the parapet fields. Both wings feature shallow risalits — the corner one facing Laze Kostića Street is rounded, while the other façade includes a semicircular pedestrian entrance.

Balconies supported by iron brackets face the courtyard.

The wing along Petra Drapšina Street was added in 1938/39, designed by engineer Lazar Nedeljković for Vera and Đorđe Grujić. In 1991, roof dormers and a mansard terrace facing the courtyard were added.

This building is a representative example of post-Art Nouveau architecture from the early 1930s. Like the house on the adjacent corner (No. 48), it now stands in an inappropriate setting, surrounded by new multi-story buildings.

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.