Designed for Nikola Geshov, the house at 7 “Patriarch Evtimiy” Blvd. in Sofia has been declared an architectural and cultural monument of local significance.

The house was built according to a project from 1909 by Nikola Lazarov (1870-1942) – one of the greatest artists in Bulgarian architecture from the beginning of the XX century. He graduated from the Ecole speciale d’Architecture in Paris (1893) as a scholarship holder in the list of the alumni of the civil list of Prince Ferdinand I.

He founded the first private architectural bureau in Sofia (1897-34). Worked on the completion and furnishing of the Military Club in Sofia (1898-1900), the Palace in Evksinograd (1894); the Northeast wing of the Prince’s Palace in Sofia (1894-96), Villa N 2 of the Summer Royal Palace in Vrana (1912). Author of the concept “Monumental Sofia” for the construction of the representative center of the capital (1907-12) and a huge number of residential and public buildings throughout the country. Elected District Councilor to the District Standing Committee (1902); municipal councilor of the city of Sofia (1911-14, 1937-40); the first Bulgarian architect – MP.

Nikola Geshov is the son of Ivan Stefanov Geshov and a relative of the politician and public figure Ivan Evstratiev Geshov. He was wealthy and it’s expressed by the building itself – a rich city dwelling from the beginning of the 20th century, located on the central boulevard of the capital; designed and decorated in the spirit of modern patterns of  its time. It occupies a large plot of land, located on the street regulation line on the eastern front of the boulevard, with a garden in depth – northeast of the house.

Privatized in the 1990s, the building was donated to the Municipality by the heirs of the original owners. Later it was sold to a private company  and has been abandoned without any maintenance, and in recent years has been visibly deliberately uncovered to accelerate its self-destruction.

At the moment the building is left to be demolished intentionally so that the plot can be used after it …