Meeting with Prof. Dinu C. Giurescu. 47 Berzei Street

Constantin C. Giurescu, the author of an impressive monograph on Bucharest and other important historical studies, lived almost all his life on Berzei Street. That is why this street is a recurring theme both in the memoirs of Professor C.C. Giurescu and in the memoirs of his son, Professor Dinu C. Giurescu.

In 1910, Professor Dinu Giurescu's grandfather, Constantin Giurescu, bought two houses on Berzei Street, numbers 73-75, later 47-49, from the Creditul Urban, "with the money he had saved from his scholarship in Vienna for three years, with the dowry of his wife, Elena Antonescu, and with a loan from the Creditul Urban. He rented one of the houses and lived with his wife and three children in the other. Demolished in 1987, they were located between two intersections, Virgiliu, Berthelot and Berzei Streets and Știrbei Vodă and Berzei Streets. We will now refer only to the house at number 47. The house at number 49 was inherited by Professor C.C. Giurescu's sister, Lelia Bădescu.

The house at number 47 went through several stages of construction. Initially, it was a ground floor building possibly built in 1893, radically transformed in 1929 and demolished in the summer of 1987 for the systematization of the area. [...]

Read the full text in issue 2 / 2011 of Arhitectura magazine.