POŠTANSKA 3 – PENSIONER ASSOCIATION OF NOVI SAD

A massive, high-ground-floor house with a footprint shaped like the Cyrillic letter “Г”, featuring a wing on the right side and a free-standing left gable wall.

It was built after 1926, as an old postcard shows two low single-storey houses previously located on this site.

For several decades, it has served as the Pensioner association of Novi Sad. With the construction of the dominant New Post Office building, this house became hidden in a street with low pedestrian traffic.The façade treatment represents a unique design in the city.

In the area where typical parapet panels would be, six semicircular windows are instead positioned above larger, square basement openings, which are flanked by unusually massive volute-shaped brackets.

On the prominent window sills, there is a distinctive functionally decorative feature—Art Nouveau–style wrought-iron railings.

The façade includes a risalit shifted to the left, with four windows facing front, and one on the side, along with two additional windows.

The wall surface is articulated with horizontal joints, and the roof cornice projects outward, topped by a lower masonry attic constructed using a combination of raised sections and small columns.

A basement opening was later converted into a commercial entrance, disrupting the previously well-preserved integral appearance of the façade.

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.