7, G. Leonidze (formerly Kirov) St.

The house located at 7, G. Leonidze (formerly Kirov) St. belonged to the daughter-in-law of King Erekle II, the mother of Prince Erekle Batonishvili, Mariam. The building was built according to the project drawn up by the German architect Albert Salzman in 1863. Built with old Georgian bricks, large-scale  facade decoration of the three-story house (the third floor was built later) using pseudo-Renaissance-Baroque style architectural motifs bears signs of eclecticism. Arched windows framed by profiled jambs and columns decorated with Corinthian capitals leave an impression of solemnity, monumentality, and a kind of grandeur. The building standing at the intersection of the streets, which opens to the environment from all angles and is equally visible from all sides, plays an important role in urban planning. The house is completely organically inscribed in the overall urban context of the area; Proportional or large-scale, artistic-stylistic, or spatial-organizational point of view, the building is inseparable from the street.