Drugănescu Kula, Retevoiești
Cula Drugănescu
sat Retevoiești; comuna Pietroșani, Argeș · 616
footprint (about 10.45 x 10.45 m)
Closed since 1988
Summary
A fortified three-storey kula of 1822 at Retevoiești (Pietroșani, Argeș), built by Gheorghe Drugănescu. Restored in the 1960s and a local museum until 1988, it is now closed and in a state of collapse.
Legal status
Nationalised 1949; the current owner is not known ↗
History
Căminar Gheorghe Drugănescu, a tax collector and former ispravnic of Muscel County, had the kula built in 1822 by the mason Gheorghe Ghinea of Vâlsănești; a Cyrillic inscription over the entrance records it. In 1832 it passed by bequest to Zinca Grecov, then to Nicolae Laptev (1862-1884), whose son auctioned it in 1884 to a banker named Jianu, who gave it as dowry to his daughter, wife of Colonel Alexandru Cărcăleteanu. It was nationalised in 1949, restored in 1965-1966 and opened as a history and ethnography museum in 1970. The 1977 and 1986 earthquakes damaged it, the exhibits were removed in 1988 and it has been closed since.
Transactions & prices
Listed components
- Cula Drugănescu — 1822 (AG-II-m-B-13777.01)
- Parc — 1822 (AG-II-m-B-13777.02)
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