Ballian Mansion (Paper and Book Arts Museum)

Bornova / İzmir

Ballian Mansion (Paper and Book Arts Museum)

The Levantine house, whose oldest registered user is the Ballian Family, was built in the second half of the 19th century. The mansion, which draws attention with its ceiling moldings and stucco decorations seen on the belly, was built by Charlton James Giraud's wife Esther Marian Giraud (Wilkinson) in 1900 by his wife Attilia Ballian, the heirs of industrialist Antoine Ballian, and children Marie, Laura, Alfred, Adelina and Albert was purchased from. With the death of Esther Marian Giraud in 1955, the mansion was left to her children Friedrich, Joyce, Donald, Norman and Eldon. The building, which was expropriated for Ege University in 1970 and purchased from these five brothers, was used as lodging, nursing school and archive in the past years. The mansion, which housed the Ege University Strategy Development Department until 2012, was restored after the Department moved to its new building and opened as a Museum of Paper and Book Arts.

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