The house of Ferencz Nagy Szabó, an important city official, head of the taylors' guild and renowned chronicler of Tîrgu Mureș, was built in 1623. His memoirs provide valuable information regarding the life of the city at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. Stylistically, the building belongs to late Transylvanian Renaissance. It maintains most of its initial structure, with an L-shaped plan and the two storeys. The ground floor is made up of five rooms covered with semicircular arched ceilings with penetrations and cross archways. The plan of the first floor is almost identical to that of the ground floor. The only exception is the corner room to which a small circular tower was added on the outside. Toward the interior yard, both on the ground floor and on the first floor, there used to be open galleries, which were later walled up when the building became the property of the Jesuite Church next to it. The facades are simple and balanced, without any remarkable decorative elements. On the side facing Trandafirilor Square, under the cornice of the roof, lies an inscription of the year it was built. Today the building belongs to the Roman Catholic Church and has shops on the ground floor. Bibliography: Ioan Eugen Man, Tîrgu-Mureș, istorie urbană de la începuturi până în 1850, Tîrgu-Mureș, Ed. Nico, 2006, pp. 126-128. Keresztes Gyula, Marosvásárhely régi épületei, Marosvásárhely, Difprescar, 1998, pp. 24-26.