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Binder House

Binder House
Sebes building
Roamata, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
house
Current function:
house
Settlement:
Szászsebes, Sebeș
Address:
Bulevardul Lucian Blaga 32
Historical Hungarian county:
Szeben
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.9569346336, 23.568546586
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History

In 1861, the house became the property of Franz Binder, a traveller to Africa, and was previously the headquarters of the town garrison in 1820. Binder rebuilt it, adding a frieze below the facade's upstairs windows on two sides and above the central balcony. The relief on the left shows the pyramids of Cheops, Khafre and Menkaure and some buildings in Cairo, on the right the Isis temple in Philae and one of the gates of Cairo, and in the centre above a caravan crossing the Nubian Desert.

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