Latifoğlu Mansion Museum
Latifzâdes are one of the influential notable families of Tokat, and according to what is learned from the land registry records, the mansion was built by Latifzâde Musa and Osman in 1291 1874. It is known that Latifoğlu Mansion, located on Gaziosmanpaşa Boulevard in the center of Tokat, was built in 1746 in the Ottoman Baroque style. The two-storey mansion, built on an "L" shaped plan with adobe filling material between the wooden frame, is covered with a hipped roof covered with Turkish style tiles. There is a square planned pool in the stone-paved courtyard of the mansion. The mansion, whose rooms are shaped around an "L" shaped sofa, has a free plan understanding. The hall on the first floor opens to the section called “soup kitchen” or “workhouse”, where daily work is done and also used as a kitchen, the living room, also called the “hamam room”, and a small room. From the bath room, you can pass to the square-planned, single-domed bath. This Turkish bath with underfloor heating, which has a small cold room and undressing area, protrudes out of the building. The sofa on the second floor separates the harem-selamlik part of the mansion. On this floor of the mansion, there is a greeting section called "Pasha Room", a harem section called "Havuzbaşı Room", a bedroom and a small room. Latioğlu Mansion has very rich wood, plaster and hand-drawn decorations. The wooden ceiling, door, closet and cabinet doors of the bath room are decorated with floral motifs. The baroque wooden ceiling core, cupboard and closet doors and door of the Pasha room reflect good examples of woodworking. The poolside room on the second floor attracts attention with its gilded wooden ceiling core, as well as its walls decorated with floral motifs and Istanbul depictions inside the panel. Gypsum work can be seen in the paint-decorated hearths and skylights of the Pasha room and the poolside room. The motif called “Mühr-ü Süleyman” was used on the plastered stained glass skylights. Latifoğlu Mansion has been serving as a Museum-House in 1988 within the body of Tokat Museum, where the traditional house culture of Tokat is reflected, by making a lively and realistic display with mannequins, equipped with the belongings and clothes of the region.
