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Former Major's Quarters, Elisabeth Girl's Orphanage, Children's Home

Former Major's Quarters, Elisabeth Girl's Orphanage, Children's Home
Original function:
orphanage / children's shelter
museum
military headquarters / administration
Current function:
orphanage / children's shelter
Address:
Strada Ady Endre 13
Historical Hungarian county:
Háromszék
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.0020690799, 26.1319790057
Google map:

History

The house was built in the early 19th century in the neoclassical style. Baron Szentkereszty Stephanie of Zagon founded the Elizabeth Girls' Orphanage in 1872. Before 1873 the building was a major's quarters. In 1874 it took the name of Elisabeth. During the 1848-49 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence, there was an ammunition factory on the site of the present children's home, with 52 workers producing 40-80 pounds of gunpowder a day for Gábor Áron's cannons. Dr. Ikafalvi Dénes Ödön (1874-1936), a lawyer, opened the town's first museum in the Orphanage in 1932, which operated until 1938.

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