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The Amilakhvari house is an architectural monument in the town of Gori, at 47 Samepo Street, built at the end of the 19th century. It has been altered: the balcony is glazed in and chopped up by partitions; the metal portico at the entrance no longer exists, nor does the wide pointed arch that once stood at the left of the facade, in which hung an ornamented metal gate. The Amilakhvari house is single-storied and stands on a socle. In plan it is an elongated rectangle (36 × 8 meters), built of brick. It has two entrances — from the street (the main entrance) and from the courtyard (from a wooden-columned balcony). The plan is of corridor type: at the end of a long corridor of mutually isolated living rooms are auxiliary chambers. On the courtyard side, in the middle, is an elongated reception room (about 90 m²) opening onto the balcony. On either side of the balcony, symmetrically, is a quarter-circle stair. In the interior, the fireplace adorned with tiles and ornamental plaster details (in the entrance hall) and 3 stoves deserve note. The cellar is entered from the courtyard; the gabled roof over the cellar stair rests on cast metal ornamented columns. The building's main facade is richly adorned with architectural decoration (complex profiles, a cornice, a high parapet, projecting pilasters and so on). The pilasters divide the facade into unequal sections; the building's center is sharply set off, its bay wide. On the parapet sits a crenellated element in which a relief of the family coat of arms was once set. The wall is rusticated, with channels worked in the plaster. The pilasters are articulated at the levels of the socle, the windows, the cornice and the parapet. The windows have matching frames. A strongly projecting cornice runs along the whole facade.
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