“Alexandru Marghiloman Street” Ensemble

OSTROVULUI STREET ENSAMBLE Ostrovului Street is one of the oldest streets in the central area of Buzău. In 1879 it was called Doamna Neaga, later Colonel Petre Voicescu, and from 1948, Vasile Roaită. Located near the “Sfinții Îngeri” - "Holy Angels" Church, whose beginnings are traditionally attributed to Doamna Neaga, the wife of Mihnea Vodă Turcitul (1577-1583; 1585-1591), but was really founded in 1619, and after 1935 near Piata Centrala (the agricultural market), Doamna Neaga Street became one of the most important commercial arteries of Buzău, with numerous buildings with the most diverse destinations, of which we mention a few, to illustrate the existence, at least in the interwar period, of an effervescent economic life: the "Dobrogeanu" Inn (1925), the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1926), the Luca Oprescu Printing and Binding Office, the Ana Vasilescu fashion store, the N. Oprescu shoe store, the "Singer" and "Bourne" sewing machine store, Mihai Dragomirescu Tailor Shop, the Ştefan Atanasiu Jewellery Shop, the "Odeon", "Columbia" and "His Master's Voice" brand gramophones, record players and records store, the "Aquila Română" Insurance Company representative office, the Toma Asproiu Tailor Shop, the Mihai Benea Painting Workshop (the one who also painted the "Holy Angels" church), the “Librăria Românească” Bookstore, the Central Bank of Buzău, the Aneta Ştefănescu hat shop, the east side of the "Holy Angels" church, its bell tower, demolished in 1935, the headquarters of Romtelecom (1982), the west side of the Buzău Court, the east side of the Saint Sava Cathedral, the "Sfinții Martiri Brâncoveni" Park, the Children's Park. Ostrovului street ensemble is included in the List of Historical Monuments (BZ-II-a-B-02341).