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Cut stone was used as a material in the building built with masonry construction system. The building has a rectangular plan in the east-west direction. The building consists of a basement, a ground floor and a normal floor. The ground floor entrance of the building is located on the north facade. The entrance door opening is flat arch. The entrance door is double-winged and iron. There are different motifs on the entrance door. The ground floor entrance level is reached by stairs. The basement entrance of the building is located on the western facade. All the windows of the building have stone frames and iron bars. Ground floor windows are round arched and normal floor windows are flat arch. The windows of the building are single winged and wooden. The top cover of the building is hipped roof. On the southern facade of the building, there is the extension across all floors. According to written sources, the building was built in 1890 by the District Governor Mehmet Ali Bey. The building, which was used as a military building when it was built, served as the governor's building after 1921 and as the Provincial Population Directorate and the Land Registry Directorate after 1942. The building has been used as the District Governorship Building since 2014. The building, which became the governor's building on September 19, 1924, was visited by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Source and Photograph: DOKAP