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Nanu-Muscel House

Casa Nanu-Muscel
București

Plot

1.64 ha ~ est. ↗
OpenStreetMap polygon around the building (university, Academia de Studii Economice)

Building

211 m² ~ est. ↗
OpenStreetMap building footprint (ground floor only)

Built

c. 1909-1911 ↗

Architect

Ernest Doneaud ↗

Style

Beaux-Arts with slight Art Nouveau influences ↗

Families

Nanu-Muscel

Owner

State university — Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Academy of Economic Studies) ↗

Current use

Unused; facades to be integrated into a new university building ↗

Summary

A Beaux-Arts townhouse at 7 Piața Romană in Bucharest, designed by Ernest Doneaud around 1909-1911 for the physician Ion Nanu-Muscel. Bought by the Academy of Economic Studies in 2012 and listed as a monument in 2013, it is to be restored with only its facades kept inside a new building.

Legal status

Listed historic monument since 2013 (LMI B-II-m-B-21064) ↗

History

Ion Nanu-Muscel (1862-1938), professor of clinical medicine and senator, won the plot at an auction in June 1908. The house was designed by Ernest Doneaud and built c. 1909-1911; the older attribution to Ion D. Berindey and the date 1890 are considered false. The family's fate under communism is unclear, and the professor Socrate Lalu is reported to have lived there. The Academy of Economic Studies bought the property in 2012 after earlier failed attempts, and the house became a historic monument in 2013. The main body stood in ruin until 2015, its interiors have since been destroyed, and the Academy announced a plan to keep the facades within a new seven-storey building, against the opposition of civil society.