Latifoğlu Konağı Museum House

Latifoğlu Mansion, located on Gazi Osman Paşa Boulevard in the center of Tokat, is built on an “L” shaped plan built in 1746 in the Ottoman Baroque style, with a two-storey mansion built with adobe filling material between wooden carcasses, covered with a hipped roof covered with alaturka tile. A square pool is located in the stone-paved courtyard of the mansion. The mansion, whose rooms are shaped around an “L” shaped sofa, has a free plan understanding.

On the first floor, the sofa opens the section called “soup kitchen” or “workplace”, where daily work is done and also used as a kitchen, the living room called “bath room” and a small room. From the bath room, there is a square plan, single-domed bath. This underheated Turkish Bath, which has a small cold-dressing section, goes out of the building. The sofa on the second floor separates the harem-selamlik section of the mansion. On this floor of the mansion there is a salutation section called “Pasha Room”, a harem section called “Poolside Room”, a bedroom and a small room.

Latifoğlu Mansion has very rich wood, plaster and pencil work decorations. The wooden ceiling of the Turkish Bath Room, the door, the load andcabinet doors are decorated with floral motifs. Baroque shaped wooden ceiling core, cabinet and load compartment covers, door of the Pasha Room are wooden reflects the beautiful examples of craftsmanship. Poolside Room on the second floor gilt painted wooden ceiling next to the belly of the billboard in flowers motifs and walls decorated with depictions of Istanbul. Plaster workmanship, plaster formwork of Pasha Room and Poolside Room it can be seen in the dye-adorned hearths and overhead windows. Stained glass plastered overhead windows “Mühr-ü Süleyman” The motif called motif is used.

Latifoğlu Mansion was built in 1988 within the Tokat Museum, equipped with local objects and clothes, and created a lively and realistic place with mannequins. It serves as a Museum-House where the traditional home culture of Tokat is reflected by being exhibited.

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