Families of Old Xanthi
The route is about 2 km long, lasts about 80 minutes and is of moderate difficulty. In it you will meet the families of old Xanthi, which in various ways contributed to the history of Xanthi, but also to the form that the old town has today. Touring the residences of old families of Xanthi, unknown aspects of their family stories will unfold and important personalities of the city will be pulled out of oblivion.

Some of the most important Christian families are: Chasirtzoglou, Stalios, Sigalas, Valixoglou, Michaloglou, Metaxas, Leontaridis, Blatsios, Angelos, Alexiou, Kalevras, Kougioumtzoglou, Kaloudis, Adamides, Christidis, Karadimoglou, Alatas. Also important were the families of Ottoman officials, such as Hamdi Bey, Muzaffer Bey, Hilmi Pasha and Memet Pasha, as well as the Jewish families of Moses and the Cohens.

Thus, the population composition of the city, the religions combination that existed and exists until today, the economic and social stratification in relation to the type and form of residence and the type of professions that found fertile ground to develop will be revealed. Many names, marking streets in old Xanthi, will come alive through this route.

58. Adamides House

Brief documentation:

This building was erected in the first decade of the 20th century and the original owner was the tobacco broker Nikolaos Adamides, who resold it in 1930 to the tobacco expert Panagiotis Mavroudis, and then the building changed owner again.
In modern times the building housed the cultural space entitled Black Box Gallery.
The central door has a skylight screen above and three levels of arched recesses with three architraves in height. The large windows on the ground floor are surrounded by a decorative frame with brick, frame and corbels on the windowsill. Arched and other decorative elements separate the ground floor from the first floor. Above the main entrance there is a small balcony. On the first floor, the openings are roofed with a stepped cornice and corbels. All windows in the building are covered with French shutters. The roof has a skylight and a triangular elevation.
On the right of the house there is an entrance with a railing, which leads to a courtyard.


Category of thematic interest:  ARCHITECTURAL/HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL/FOLKLORE INTEREST


History:

The building was erected in the first decade of the 20th century and the original owner was the tobacco broker Nikolaos Adamides, who resold it in 1930 to the tobacco expert Panagiotis Mavroudis, and then changed owner again.
In modern times it housed the cultural space called Black Box Gallery.


Elements of architecture:

The central door has a skylight screen above and three levels of arched recesses with three architraves in height. The large windows on the ground floor are surrounded by an brick frame, with frame and corbels on the windowsill. Arched decorative elements separate the ground floor from the first floor. Above the main entrance there is a balcony. The openings on the first floor are covered with a stepped cornice and corbels. All windows are covered with French shutters. The roof has a skylight and a triangular elevation.


Description of other elements:

On the right the house has an entrance with a railing, which leads to a courtyard.


Purpose - Use: Residence, Cultural space


Characterization: Preservable, Institution of the Ministry of Education, Category "A", Decision 5385, Government Gazette 1097/95


Dating (period): First decade of the 20th century


Year of construction: First decade of the 20th century


Location of the monument: 41.14378888659297, 24.88780394204497


Bibliographic references:

•    Katsari-Vafiadis, J. Ed. 2023. "History and recording of the neoclassical buildings of the traditional settlement". Xanthi: Municipality of Xanthi, p. 48


 Address: Antikas 12


Visitable: No

 

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