Ragıp Pasha Mansion

Ragıp Pasha Mansion is an Ottoman-era waterfront mansion in the Caddebostan neighborhood of Kadıköy, Istanbul, on the shore of the Sea of Marmara. It was built in 1906 for Ragıp Pasha, an aide de camp to Sultan Abdulhamid II and a businessman, to designs by the Prussian architect August Carl Friedrich Jasmund, who also designed the Sirkeci railway station. The complex was planned as three buildings: a luxurious one for the Pasha, a more modest one for his daughter Tevhide, and a one-storey reception pavilion beside the street, which was later demolished. The two main buildings have three stories and a basement and are of masonry covered by wood, so the outside looks like a wooden house, while the interiors have richly decorated wooden ceilings with gold leaf, imported Italian marble and parquet floors from Vienna. The buildings cover a floor area of 3,406 square meters. After the Pasha died in 1920 the house passed through several owners and uses and was nicknamed Little Dolmabahce Palace; in 2022 a court tender ended with the bank Isbank buying it.