At 2 Trandafirilor Place, behind the Orthodox Church, there is the Military Circle building also known as the Görög House. The rather large building has four levels: the basement, the ground floor and two upper floors. The period of the first stage of construction is not known, but it is certain that the basement and the first floor date from before 1800 and, structure-wise, belong to the Baroque trend. Between 1827 and 1828, one of the most important merchants of Tîrgu- Mureș at that time - Görög Iosif – added two more levels to the building. The works were finished by Görög”™s widow in 1838. The two stages of construction are obvious especially in what concerns the ceilings. The rooms on the ground floor are covered by arched ceilings with penetrations, whereas the two floors have flat ceilings. The facade, however, has particularities typical to the neo-classicist trend. The first manifestations of this trend – adopted mainly by city- dwellers: merchants and craftsmen - appeared in Transylvania at the beginning of the 19th century. The triangular shape of the window cornices on the first floor, the two pilasters with composite caps that frame the middle register of the façade, the cornice underneath the roof and the imposing fronton are a few of the classical elements of the building. In time, the building hosted numerous balls and meetings. In 1848 Károly Görög invited poet Petőfi Sándor to his house, as he was heading for Sighișoara with General Bem. This was the last visit of the Hungarian poet in Tîrgu-Mureș, as he died in the fights against imperial armies at Albești. There is a plaque on the facade reminding of Petőfi Sándor”™s and other Hungarian revolutionaries”™ stay  in the house, Between 1848 and 1849 the City Council used it as its headquarters as the council”™s building had been damaged during the Revolution. Austrian Emperor Franz Josef also halted here in 1852 on his way to Bistrița. Later, after 1868, it was used as seat of the Savings Bank. The honeycomb – the symbol of savings- on the building”™s façade dates from that period. After the establishment of communism, the house was nationalized and became the property of the army. Bibliography: Grigore Ionescu, Istoria arhitecturii în România,vol. II, București, Ed. A.R.S.R., 1965 Ioan Eugen Man, Tîrgu-Mureș, istorie urbană de la începuturi până în 1850,Tîrgu-Mureș, Ed. Nico, 2006, pp. 254-256.