Status of monument -> National monument
Published in the Official Gazette of BiH, no. 13/11.
Pursuant to Article V para. 4 Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Article 39 para. 1 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, at a session held on 26 October 2010 the Commission adopted a
D E C I S I O N
I
The historic Jozef Zadik Danon building in Sarajevo is hereby designated as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the National Monument).
The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot no. 1941, cadastral municipality Centar Sarajevo IV (new survey), corresponding to c.p. no. 162, c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX (old survey), title deed no. 727, Land Register entry no. 177, Municipality Centar, Sarajevo Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The provisions relating to protection measures set forth by the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of the Federation of BiH nos. 2/02, 27/02, 6/04 and 51/07) shall apply to the National Monument.
II
The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the Government of the Federation) shall be responsible for providing the legal, scientific, technical, administrative and financial measures necessary for the protection, conservation and presentation of the National Monument.
The Commission to Preserve National Monuments (hereinafter: the Commission) shall determine the technical requirements and secure the funds for preparing and setting up signboards with basic details of the monument and the Decision to proclaim the property a National Monument.
III
To ensure the on-going protection of the National Monument on the area defined in Clause 1 para. 2 of this Decision, the following protection measures are hereby stipulated:
- all works are prohibited other than conservation-restoration works, routine maintenance works, and works designed to display the monument, subject to the approval of the Federal Ministry responsible for regional planning and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina;
- before embarking on conservation-restoration works a detailed survey of the property shall be carried out together with investigative works to include an analysis of the building materials and the type and colour of the paint used on the façades;
- the conservation-restoration works must be based on the detailed survey of the property and include a methodological approach designed to preserve the historical qualities of the property;
- the original appearance of the properties shall be retained as regards the treatment of architectural details, the colour of the walls, the treatment of the façades, the structure of the buildings and the pitch and cladding of the roofs. Changes to their stylistic features by the removal or addition of decorative elements and architectural details (stone and other mouldings, door lintels, string courses, cornices etc.) are prohibited;
- during conservation and restoration works the same materials, techniques and finishes shall be used as were originally applied;
- the project documentation shall cover dilapidated and damaged elements of the property (roof cladding, roof trusses, guttering, mains water and drainage pipes) and provide for their replacement in line with the above methods;
- the authentic appearance of the interior must be preserved;
- the aluminium window frames shall be replaced by wooden ones in line with details of the original frames;
- an examination and structural analysis of the central section of the outer west wall of the building shall be conducted;
- in the event that serious structural problems are identified, the outer wall shall be structurally consolidated using the same materials and techniques wherever possible.
IV
All executive and area development planning acts are hereby revoked to the extent that they are not in accordance with the provisions of this Decision.
V
Everyone, and in particular the competent authorities of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Canton, and urban and municipal authorities, shall refrain from any action that might damage the National Monument or jeopardize the preservation thereof.
VI
The Government of the Federation, the Federal Ministry responsible for regional planning, the Federation heritage protection authority, and the Municipal Authorities in charge of urban planning and land registry affairs, shall be notified of this Decision in order to carry out the measures stipulated in Articles II to V of this Decision, and the Authorized Municipal Court shall be notified for the purposes of registration in the Land Register.
VII
The elucidation and accompanying documentation form an integral part of this Decision, which may be viewed by interested parties on the premises or by accessing the website of the Commission (http://www.kons.gov.ba)
VIII
Pursuant to Art. V para 4 Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, decisions of the Commission are final.
IX
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of BiH.
This Decision has been adopted by the following members of the Commission: Zeynep Ahunbay, Martin Cherry, Amra Hadžimuhamedović, Dubravko Lovrenović and Ljiljana Ševo.
No.07.3-02.3-71/10-19
26 October 2010
Sarajevo
Chair of the Commission
Amra Hadžimuhamedović
E l u c i d a t i o n
I – INTRODUCTION
Pursuant to Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a “National Monument” is an item of public property proclaimed by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to be a National Monument pursuant to Articles V and VI of Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and property entered on the Provisional List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of BiH no. 33/02) until the Commission reaches a final decision on its status, as to which there is no time limit and regardless of whether a petition for the property in question has been submitted or not.
The Jozef Zadik Danon building at the corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets in Sarajevo forms part of the Urban Townscape of Sarajevo, which is on the Provisional List of National Monuments under serial no. 546.
Pursuant to the provisions of the law, the Commission proceeded to carry out the procedure for reaching a final decision to designate the property as a national monument, pursuant to Article V para. 4 of Annex 8 and Article 35 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments.
Statement of Significance
The Jozef Zadik Danon building at the corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets in Sarajevo is one of the finest examples of a residential rental property designed in the early Austro-Hungarian period in Sarajevo, when most buildings were designed in the historicist style. Josip Vancaš, who had already made a name for himself as an architect in Sarajevo, designed the property in the neo-Renaissance style, the preferred style in Sarajevo for major buildings. The property was built using the best quality building materials of the day, in line with the new Building Regulations for the Provincial capital, Sarajevo, issued in 1893. The building is of townscape value as part of the Marshal Tito Street townscape. No major alterations have ever been carried out on the building, which suffered no serious damage during the various wars of the 20th century.
II – PRELIMINARY PROCEDURE
In the procedure preceding the adoption of a final decision to proclaim the property a national monument, the following documentation was inspected:
- Documentation on the location of the property and the current owner and occupant.
- Details of legal protection to date.
- Data on the current condition and use of the property, including a description and photographs, data of war damage, data on restoration or other works on the property, etc.
- Historical, architectural and other documentary material on the property, as set out in the bibliography forming part of this Decision.
Pursuant to Article 12 of the Law on the Implementation of Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments Established Pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the following procedures were carried out for the purpose of designating the property as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina:
- A letter ref. 02-35-168/08-9 of 17.07.2008 requesting documentation and views on the designation of the Danon building in Sarajevo was sent to the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport, the Archives of BiH, the Construction Authority of Sarajevo Canton, the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage of Sarajevo Canton, the Planning Authority of Sarajevo Canton and the Federal Ministry of Regional Planning and the Environment.
- A letter ref. 07.3-35.2-10/10-59 of 20.04.2010 requesting documentation and views on the designation of the Danon building in Sarajevo was sent to Centar Municipality in Sarajevo.
- The property is in state ownership, and Centar Municipality has not responded in writing with its views concerning the designation of the property as a national monument.
The findings based on the review of the above documentation and the condition of the site are as follows:
1. Details of the property
Location
The Jozef Zadik Danon building is on the corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets, in the inner city centre of Sarajevo. To the west of the building, Mula Mustafe Bašeskije Street continues westwards as Marshal Tito Street, while to the south, on the opposite side of the road, is the former Grand Hotel, outside which is the Eternal Flame memorial.
The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot no. 1941, cadastral municipality Centar Sarajevo IV (new survey), corresponding to c.p. no. 162, c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX (old survey), title deed no. 727, Land Register entry no. 177, Municipality Centar, Sarajevo Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Historical information
The Jozef Zadik Danon building on the corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets(1) in Sarajevo was built in the early Austro-Hungarian period, when there was a construction, industrial and commercial boom in Sarajevo, further boosted by the adoption of new building regulations for the Provincial capital, Sarajevo, adopted in 1893. These regulations supplemented the first building regulations, the Bauordnung, introduced in 1880(2). The new 1893 regulations included provisions specifying in detail the building materials to be used and the standards applicable to the size of new buildings. Every building – public edifices without exception, and private buildings as a rule – had to be built of top quality fired brick or stone, with fireproofed roofing and steps of stone or other fire-resistant material. Residential buildings were to have no more than three storeys (ground and two upper floors), except for those on Grade I streets (15 m or more in width) which, by way of exception, could have an additional storey provided that they were of similar height to the neighbouring buildings. The building regulations also prescribed the width both of the streets and of the pavement outside the buildings(3).
Josip Vancaš(4) designed the mixed-use building for Jozef Zadik Danon(5) in 1896. The plot on which it was erected had until that year belonged to the Kestenđić family(6). By this time, Josip Vancaš had already earned his reputation as an architect by designing and building such edifices in Sarajevo as the Cathedral(7) and the Provincial Government building(8). The design for the Danon building in Sarajevo belongs to the first design phase of Vancaš’s forty years’ activity, during which he would design and build 102 residential properties(9), seventy churches, thirteen schools and institutes, ten local and provincial government buildings, ten banks, seven mansions, six hotels and coffee-houses, six industrial plants and seven interiors and altars, as well as alterations to ten buildings(10). His first designs were historicist in nature(11), as was to be expected, given the academic education and design trends current in European architecture at the time(12). All his designs in the final two decades of the 19th century would remain true to the historicist manner; only later did he encounter other artistic trends.
In the 1890s, there was an acute need for housing for the fast-growing population of the city, mainly met by building residential rental properties in the city centre. The new local bourgeoisie and wealthy foreigners alike recognized the profits to be made from high quality mixed-use rental properties, and many were built during the 1880s and 90s, greatly altering the city, which by the beginning of the 20th century had acquired the appearance of a central European city(13).
No extensions or other alterations were carried out on the building between its completion and occupancy in 1897 to the end of the Austro-Hungarian period (1918) and throughout the interwar period (1918-1941), except for routine maintenance works. Nor did it undergo any change of use from residential and office rentals. In 1928 the building was inherited by Salamon Danon, son of the late Jozef Zadik Danon(14). The building was not damaged in World War II. It was nationalized in 1961(15), but remained in mixed use, though no longer as a residential rental property. During the latter half of the 20th century, the office premises on the corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets were used as a restaurant. During the 1992-1995 war, the roof was damaged, but was repaired after the war. The building remained in mixed use, with the ground-floor premises now housing a fashion boutique.
2. Description of the property
The Jozef Zadik Danon building on the corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets in Sarajevo is a mixed use rental building(16) in a row of buildings of similar use erected as infills in a built-up area of the town during the Austro-Hungarian period.
The building, which is in the neo-Renaissance style, is a long, narrow corner building roughly rectangular in plan, with sides of 9.00 x 32.00 m. It has five storeys (basement, ground, two upper storeys and an attic storey), with a height of 17.20 m to the roof ridge and 14.00 m to the eaves. Vancaš designed it along the same lines as other rental buildings, with office space on the ground floor and two storeys of spacious flats above.
The main entrance to the building is midway along the west end of the building, facing Kaptol Street, through a double-valved door of 150 x 260 cm, opening onto a central stairwell of 3.00 x 8.00 m with a double-flight staircase 115 cm wide rising the full height of the building(17).
The first and second floors each have two flats, one to the north, the other to the south, of roughly the same size and layout. The ground floor differs in that there are commercial premises to the south, at the junction of the two streets. To the north is another, ground-floor flat.
The flats are roughly 80 sq.m in size. They have double-valved oak front doors of 120 x 230 cm, opening onto long corridors, 1.10 m wide and 7.00 m long. To the west are three reception rooms overlooking Kaptol Street, while to the east are the bathroom and toilet, facing onto narrow light wells. There are also reception rooms to the south, overlooking Mula Mustafe Bašeskije Street.
The rooms in the north flats facing onto Kaptol Street measure 5.00 x 3.90, 3.20 x 3.90 and 4.90 x 4.20 m respectively, and all have central connecting doors of 115 x 230 cm; the first two rooms also have double-valved doors of the same size opening onto the corridor. To the south-east is a bathroom of 1.80 x 1.20 m with an outer lobby of the same size. To the north-east is a kitchen and larder measuring 5.00 x 2.60 m overall.
The rooms in the south flats measure 2.50 x 3.90, 4.50 x 3.90 and 5.00 x 4.40 m respectively, and have connecting doors, except for the first room, which is entered from the corridor(18). Between the southernmost reception room, on the street corner, measuring 4.50 x 3.00 m and the reception room to the south-east, facing onto Mula Mustafe Bašeskije, is a double-valved door of 115 x 230 cm. To the east are a bathroom and toilet.
The ground-floor area below the south flats provides commercial premises in which, unlike the flats above, the premises facing Mula Mustafe Bašeskije Street are open plan. The storeroom to the east is larger by the amount of space taken up by the corridor of the upstairs flats.
The attic storey has been converted into flats, with only the south flat in use.
The façades are in the neo-Renaissance style, particularly the west front, which is roughly symmetrical. The south and west fronts are street fronts finished to imitate coursed stone, with pronounced string courses and roof cornice and tertiary mouldings. The rectangular windows with arched overlights in a square-headed casing measure 115 x 220 cm overall.
The west front is articulated by risalits to the side ending in tympanums at attic level, and by a slight central projection where the entrance portal is located. The portal, measuring 150 x 260 cm, has a semicircular fanlight above, with a diameter of 210 cm. Both upper storeys have ten two-light windows, all rectangular except at the far end of the second floor, where there are two arched windows. At ground-floor level, there are five two-light windows on the ground floor to the north and four shop windows to the south, all 380 cm high but of varying widths(19).
In form, the south front is a continuation of the west front. The upper floors each have three windows of the same size and shape as those on the west front, with shop windows of 190 x 380 cm directly below them on the ground floor.
As regards construction and materials, the building was erected in compliance with the strict provisions of the 1893 building regulations, setting high standards as regards the use of building materials. The building has bearing and outer walls between 50 and 80 cm thick, and interior walls 30, 20 and 15 cm thick. Two massive bearing brick walls in the middle of the building, flanking the stairwell, lie east-west. 80 cm thick in the basement, as they rise through the building, these walls gradually become thinner.
The ceiling over the basement is a brick vault resting on steel cross-beams lying north-south. The ceiling joists of the storeys above are wooden.
The stairs are of stone, with wrought iron railings and wooden handrails. The original front doors of the flats, like the exterior woodwork, were of good quality timber.
The basement ceiling is 2.30 m high, that of the ground floor 3.90 m, and those of the upper storeys 3.30 m high. The interfloor structure is 50 cm thick. The roof trusses are wooden, and the roof is clad with galvanized iron.
3. Legal status to date
The Jozef Zadik Danon building at the corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets in Sarajevo forms part of the Urban Townscape of Sarajevo, which is on the Provisional List of National Monuments under serial no. 546.
The Jozef Zadik Danon building at the corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets in Sarajevo is on the “List of Recorded, Provisionally Protected and Protected Immovable Cultural Monuments and Natural Heritage of Sarajevo Canton” as item 5, Mixed-use building, Jozef Z. Danon building, corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets, under subsection 5.2.02, “Mixed-use buildings,” section 5.2, Austro-Hungarian period. The historic building is on the list, but is not on the register of cultural monuments.
The section on protection of the “Kvadrant 12” urban planning project drawn up by the Cantonal Institute for the Protection of the Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage of Sarajevo classifies the Jozef Zadik Danon building on the corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets in Sarajevo as an outstanding work of historicism in Sarajevo(20).
According to the information provided by the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport(21), the mixed-use Jozef Zadik Danon building in Sarajevo on the corner of Marshal Tito (present-day Mula Mustafe Bašeskije) and Radojke Lakić (present-day Kaptol) streets, Austro-Hungarian period, is listed, but is not on the register of cultural monuments.
4. Research and conservation-restoration works
Nothing is known of any investigative or systematic conservation-restoration works on the Jozef Zadik Danon building at the corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets in Sarajevo.
Since it was first built, the building has been subject to routine maintenance works and interior refurbishments, including the adaptation of the kitchens and bathrooms to meet modern standards.
During the latter half of the 20th century, the attic storey was converted into two flats. After 1995 the roof was repaired by the tenants. At this time, too, the ground-floor premises, previously housing a restaurant, were converted into a fashion boutique with aluminium fittings on the shop windows.
In 2007 addition repairs were carried out to the roof and the west front, but damaged was caused to the guttering and part of the west front when the scaffolding collapsed. This damage has not yet been made good.
5. Current condition of the property
There is cause for concern over the structural condition of the outer west wall of the Jozef Zadik Danon building in Sarajevo. There are cracks in the stairwell zone on the upper storeys, probably resulting from the vibrations caused by the very heavy traffic and frequent trams passing along Mula Mustafe Bašeskije Street. The damaged down pipes on the west front may be the cause of atmospheric damp penetrating into the foundations. There is also evidence of damp in the attic flats.
The routine maintenance of the common parts (stairwell and basement) is not up to standard. There is clear evidence of damp in the basement. The stairwell walls are in a stage of neglect, and the ceilings are damaged by atmospheric damp. The electric switch on the ground floor is obsolete and not in compliance with current fire protection regulations.
The representative façades to the west and north are in good condition, except for damage to the middle of the ground-floor west front. The same cannot be said of the rear façades facing onto the light well to the east, which are in a marked state of neglect.
The value of the street fronts has been somewhat compromised by the aluminium fittings on the ground-floor shop windows.
6. Specific risks
- Penetration of atmospheric damp,
- Problematic condition of the structure of the central section of the outer west wall,
- Potential danger from the obsolete electric wiring in the stairwell.
III – CONCLUSION
Applying the Criteria for the adoption of a decision on proclaiming an item of property a national monument (Official Gazette of BiH nos. 33/02 and 15/03), the Commission has enacted the Decision cited above.
The Decision was based on the following criteria:
A. Time frame
C. Artistic and aesthetic value
C.i. quality of workmanship
C.ii. quality of materials
C.iii. proportions
C.iv. composition
C.v. value of details
D. Clarity
D.iii. work of a major artist or builder
F. Townscape value
F.i. relation to other elements of the site
F.ii. meaning in the townscape
F.iii. the building or group of buildings is part of a group or site
G. Authenticity
G.i. form and design
G.ii. material and content
G.iii. use and function
G.v. location and setting
I. Completeness
I.i. physical coherence
I.ii. homogeneity
I.iii. completeness
The following documents form an integral part of this Decision:
- Ownership documentation
- Copy of cadastral plan for c.p. no. 1941, c.m. Centar Sarajevo IV (new survey), title deed no. 727, plan no. Sarajevo - 148; scale 1:1000 (old survey c.p. no. 162, c.m.. Sarajevo XXIX), issued on 19.06.2008 by the Department of Proprietary Rights, Geodetics and Cadastral Affairs, Centar Municipality, Sarajevo Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Land Register entry for plot no. 162, c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX, Land Register entry no.177 (old survey), no. 065-0-Su-0i-068336 of 10.11.2009, issued by the Land Registry Office of the Municipal Court in Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Documentation on previous protection of the property
- Letter from the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport no. 07-40-4-3200-1/08 of 29.08.2008.
- Photodocumentation
- Photographs of the Jozef Zadik Danon building in Sarajevo taken on 14 April 2010 by architect Adi Ćorović using Sony DSC – H10 digital camera.
- Technical documentation
- Drawings of the Jozef Zadik Danon building on the corner of Mula Mustafe Bašeskije and Kaptol streets by Josip Vancaš, 1897. Jela Božić. Arhitekt Josip pl. Vancaš, značaj i doprinos arhitekturi Sarajeva u periodu austrougarske uprave – doctoral dissertation. Sarajevo: Faculty of Architecture, 1989.
- Technical drawing of the ground plan of the second-floor south flat, 2000.
Bibliography
During the procedure to designate the property as a national monument the following works were consulted:
1973 Bejtić, Alija. Ulice i trgovi Sarajeva (Streets and squares of Sarajevo). Sarajevo: Sarajevo Museum, 1973
1987 Krzović, Ibrahim. Arhitektura Bosne i Hercegovine, 1878.-1918 (Architecture of BiH 1878-1918). Sarajevo: Art Gallery of BiH, 1989
1988 Spasojević, Borislav. Arhitektura stambenih palata austrougarskog perioda u Sarajevu (Architecture of Austro-Hungarian period mansion blocks in Sarajevo). Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1988
1989 Božić, Jela. Arhitekt Josip pl. Vancaš, značaj i doprinos arhitekturi Sarajeva u periodu austrougarske uprave (Architect the Hon. Josip Vancaš, significance and contribution to the architecture of Sarajevo in the Austro-Hungarian period), doctoral dissertation. Sarajevo: Faculty of Architecture, 1989
1998 Kurto, Nedžad. Arhitektura Bosne i Hercegovine – Razvoj bosanskog stila (Architecture of BiH – development of the Bosnian style). Sarajevo: Sarajevo Publishing, 1998
1998 Pudarić, Sanda, Lidvina Šimić. Separat zaštite urbanističkog projekta “Kvadrant 12” (“Kvadrant 12” town planning project, protection study). Sarajevo: Cantonal Institute for the Protection of the Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage of Sarajevo, November 1998
2004 Krzović, Ibrahim. Arhitektura Secesije u Bosni i Hercegovini (Architecture of the Secession in BiH). Sarajevo: Kulturno naslijeđe, 2004
2005 Decision designating the Cathedral (Church of the Sacred Heart) in Sarajevo as a national monument at a session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 25 to 31 January 2005
2008 Decision designating the Presidency Building of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Provincial Government Building I) in Sarajevo as a national monument at a session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 27 May to 2 June 2008.
(1) During the Austro-Hungarian period, Mula Mustafe Bašeskije Street was known as Ćemaluša, while between the two world wars it bore the name King Alexander Street. During the Austro-Hungarian period, Kaptol Street was known as Tubegovića Street, while during the interwar period it was called Krekova Street.
For most the latter half of the 20th century, until the 1992-1995 war, Kaptol Street was named after Radojka Lakić, and Mula Mustafe Bašeskije Street formed the continuation eastwards of Marshal Tito Street, the western stretch of which retained its old name. - Alija Bejtić, Ulice i trgovi Sarajeva, Sarajevo: Sarajevo Museum, 1973, 314 and 315.
(2) The first building regulations introduced by the Austro-Hungarian authorities had a direct impact on the development of the city. They included provisions on the widening and layout of streets and on the development of new urban quarters, and set out the building standards to be applied in the case of foundations, walls, floors, chimneys and so on. Building works could be carried out only with a permit from the relevant authorities, to which blueprints were to be submitted to the prescribed scale. All this also gave the advantage to trained architects, who designed and built the properties for which central Sarajevo is now known. – Borislav Spasojević, Arhitektura stambenih palata austrougarskog perioda u Sarajevu, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1988, 13.
(3) Borislav Spasojević, op.cit, 1988, 13. - 17.
(4) For a brief biography of Josip Vancaš, see the Decision designating the Presidency Building of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Provincial Government Building I) in Sarajevo as a national monument, adopted at a session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 27 May to 2 June 2008
(5) Jozef Zadik Danon was a wealthy Sarajevo merchant, born in 1858 and died on 4 February 1928 in Sarajevo. He was from a prominent Jewish family; his grandfather was the Rabbi of Sarajevo, Ham Avram Danon. As well as his mercantile activities, Danon invested in real property and was also a patron of cultural societies in Sarajevo (on 18 January 1897 he made a donation to the Serbian Orthodox choral society known as Sloga. (Stevo Kaluđerić et.al..Sarajevo: Bosanska vila of 15/05/1897)
http://www.idoc.ba/digitalarchive/public/browsing/bydate/index.cfm/fuseaction/listarticles/code/01.03.06/year/1897/month/5/day/15/ 15. Oct. 2010)
Jozef Zadik Danon’s last place of residence was at no. 62 Aleksandrova Street in Sarajevo, where he lived with his wife Simha, with whom he had nine sons and a daughter. He moved to Vienna during World War I, remaining there after the end of the war, and keeping in touch with the Sarajevo charity La Benevolencija, to which he donated 10,000 crowns in 1919 in memory of his son Isak Jozef Danon, who was killed in the war (Anon. “Društvene vijesti.” Sarajevo: Židovska svijest no. 15 p. 4, 07.02.1919) – Details from Domovnice (certificates of domicile) and Knjige mrtvih (Book of the Dead) of the Jewish Sephardi community in Sarajevo, 18 October 2010
(6) Ibrahim Krzović, Arhitektura Bosne i Hercegovine, 1878.-1918, Sarajevo: Art Gallery of BiH, 1987, 116
(7) Decision designating the Cathedral (Church of the Sacred Heart) in Sarajevo as a national monument at a session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 24 to 31 January 2005
(8) Decision designating the Presidency Building of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Provincial Government Building I) in Sarajevo as a national monument, adopted at a session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 27 May to 2 June 2008
(9) At the same time as the Jozef Zadik Danon building, Vancaš was also designing the historicist mixed-use building of city councillor Daniel M. Salom on the corner of Tito and Vrazova streets - Jela Božić, Arhitekt Josip pl. Vancaš, značaj i doprinos arhitekturi Sarajeva u periodu austrougarske uprave – doctoral dissertation, Sarajevo: Faculty of Architecture, Sarajevo, 1989, 145 and 146.
(10) Jela Božić, op.cit, 1989, 33
Most of his designs were for Bosnia and Herzegovina, though some were executed in Croatia and Slovenia
(11) Historicism as an artistic period in Bosnia and Herzegovina should be taken with reservations, since it was imported from an entirely different cultural milieu. Theoretically, historicism belongs to the previous period of classicism, which was first to turn to historical styles. Since there was no classical period in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the principal condition for historicism, historical continuity, was missing, casting doubts on its artistic credibility, even though historicism is of major documentary and historical value in Sarajevo in particular. - Nedžad Kurto, Arhitektura Bosne i Hercegovine – Razvoj bosanskog stila, Sarajevo: Kulturno naslijeđe, 1998, 18.
(12) Jela Božić, op.cit, 1989, 131
(13) Jela Božić, op.cit, 1989, 145 and 146.
(14) Ibrahim Krzović, op.cit, 1987, 116
(15) Ibrahim Krzović, op.cit, 1987, 116
(16) New types of residential properties came into being in the Austro-Hungarian period, including the rental building, the most common type, built in a row, as a block, or as a detached building. Rental buildings usually had two flats entered from the stairwell. As a rule, one room would have a separate entrance from the stairwell for subtenants, and would be provided with all the mod cons of the day (electric lighting, mains plumbing). Each flat also had a fuel store in the basement or a shed in the courtyard. – Borislav Spasojević, op.cit, 1988, 25.
(17) There is a storeroom at the easternmost end of the stairwell, of the same width as the stairwell itself and about 1.00 m deep.
(18) Now used as a kitchen
(19) The southernmost shop window is 190 cm wide, and the remaining three are 150 cm wide
(20) Sanda Pudarić, Lidvina Šimić, Separat zaštite urbanističkog projekta “Kvadrant 12”, Sarajevo: Cantonal Institute for the Protection of the Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage of Sarajevo, November 1998
(21) Letter from the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport ref. 07-40-4-3200-1/08, Sarajevo, 29 August 2008
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