Town house

It is one of the most beautiful old houses in Leskovac. It has existed for more than one hundred and fifty years and is a clear example of a Balkan-style house. It was built in the second half of the 19th century and belonged to the prominent Dimitrijević family. It consists of ground floor and first floor. The house is entered from a spacious yard on the south side, according to which the appearance of the building is more picturesque and richer. In the interior, to the right of the lobby, there are two rooms - one is dedicated to the Leskovac writer Jacques Confin, and the other has a decorated look of a kitchen from the 19th century. On the left is the magazine where educational workshops for children are now held. A wooden staircase leading from the hall leads to the upstairs hall. From this hall, one communicates with the salon, where the floor is made of oak planks, and on the ceiling in the chandelier room, an octagonal wooden rosette is applied, on which geometric motifs are carved, with a combination of lime mortar. The salon has a rosette of wooden oak planks with carved floral motifs. The hall is connected to the sofa and a niche next to the sofa, which is organically connected to the hall. The divanhana, equipped with minderlucs and pillows, is a few steps higher than the floor level, facing south and facing the courtyard. The floor and ceiling of the sofa are made of oak planks. From the hall on the first floor, there are four rooms (two on the bay windows): a chandelier room, a salon, a study room and a girl's room. The study and lounge have drawers for folding bedding. The wings of the cupboard are carved with geometric patterns in oriental style. In the study, the ceiling is made of oak planks, with floral elements at the corners. In some rooms, the original doors, wooden ceilings and cupboards built into the walls have been preserved, and there is also a smaller compartment from which the stairs lead to the attic. A total of 27 windows are arranged on the facade canvases of the floors, of which 25 are approximately the same dimensions and two smaller dimensions, which are distributed over the entire upper surface of the floor on all sides of the house. A wooden staircase leads to the first floor. From the spacious vestibule you enter four rooms (two on the bay windows): a chandelier-room, a salon, a study and a girl's room. The vestibule consists of a divanhana. The rooms were heated from the rooms - small rooms that were located between the two rooms. The ceilings and cupboards in the rooms are decorated with wooden carvings. The house has a permanent ethnological exhibition that represents the reconstruction of the interior of houses from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century in Leskovac. The museum was housed in this building until it was moved to a new building on May 10, 1974. There is a Children's Museum in the City Hall, a children's club intended for children. The reconstruction of the City Hall was completed in 2002, when a permanent ethnographic exhibition was opened. By the decision of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in 1948, the City Hall was placed under state protection.