Mikes House (Mikes Palace)

Summary

A late Baroque townhouse at 4 Piața Muzeului (formerly Karolina Square), on the north side of the square opposite the Carolina Obelisk in Cluj-Napoca. It is a listed monument of local importance, dated to the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Legal status

Listed historic monument of local importance (LMI CJ-II-m-B-07434) ↗

History

Romanian Wikipedia says the house was built at the end of the 18th century in the Baroque style, while its infobox gives 1846 and a classicist style. Hungarian Wikipedia describes a late Baroque building from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, reconstructed in the 1870s. An old 19th-century photograph shows the original facade, which was altered in a recent renovation. The builder is not named, and the link to the Mikes family rests on the building's name. Current ownership and use are not known.

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