#sims2building

The building displays the year 1882 and the initials P.N. on the balcony guardrail and is listed as historical monument, however, given that the owners did not invest in its renovation and neither did the authorities, it sits in a degradation state.

The ground floor seems to have always housed commercial spaces, with the earliest proof I could find showing that it functioned as a taylor's shop and then as a confectionery during the Golden Age of communism. Post-communist business expansion showed no mercy on the structure and façade of this building (and many others on the same street), with the original elements being taken down and replaced by hideous paint and plastic windows.

The first floor survived the butchering, with the original architectural elements and wooden window panes still in place, however it housed tenants of different kinds throughout the years, that allowed it to succumb to the test of time. 2023 brought the building back into the attention of the authorities, but only to assess its state as high-risk for seismic activity and to have the first floor tenants evacuated.