Tudor Arghezi House
The Memorial House of Tudor Arghezi also known as Casa Mărțișor is a Historic Monument located in the Dealul Piscului (Peak Hill) area of Sector 4 in Bucharest, Romania. The building was the home of Romanian literature writer Tudor Arghezi from 1930 until his death in 1967.CIMEC - Ghidul muzeelor: Casa Memorială „Tudor Arghezi”, accesat 3 martie 2014. 

History
On June 10, 1926, writer Tudor Arghezi becomes the owner of the land where the memorial house was going to be built. The area was initially situated on the former Mahalaua Cărămidarilor (The Brickalyer's Slum), in the proximity of Piaţa Sudului (Southern Market) and the Văcărești Monastery. He starts its construction with the support of a Swedish architect named Jahanes. The house was built according to the plans of imagined and wished by Arghezi himself. The building hosts a total of twenty rooms as Arghezi and his wife Paraschiva only lived in three of them which were finished by 1930.

Between 1935 and 1937, the annex building was also built, which became Arghezi's personal printing house, a place where he worked with his son, journeyman Baruțu, printing books and magazines. In 1948, Arghezi's property was nationalized by the Romanian Communist Party, the poet giving in his assets on the condition that this property be used as a memorial house after his passing. Seven years after the poet's death, on May 20, 1974, the doors of the house were opened, so that from 2006 it became a Memorial Museum, under the coordination of the National Museum of Romanian Literature.

For a long time, the honorary director of the now-museum property was the daughter of Tudor Arghezi, Mitzura. The museum was organized on the first floor of the building, the ground floor always belonging to the heirs of the family.Ce s-a ales de paradisul de la Mărțișor, locul pe care Arghezi îl numea „ACASĂ”. Poetul e îngropat în curtea casei, alături de dragostea lui, de Mitzura și de câinele Zdreanță, Aura Stan, în a1.ro, 6 martie 2017. Traian Radu, a very close friend and confidant of Mitzura Arghezi, remained the heir. This decision was contested by the niece, Doina Theodorescu Arghezi.

In the garden, on the place where the first house was and then the prisaca, today are the graves of Tudor and Paraschiva Arghezi, as well as the grave of Mitzura.

See also
 List of monumente istorice in Romania
 List of museums in Bucharest

References

External links

 Tudor Arghezi House at Geocaching
 Tudor Arghezi House at CIMEC

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Category:Museums established in 1974
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Category:Historic house museums in Romania
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