Iron portico on Nabatat Street leading onto Charles Beyerle Palace on Ahmed Pasha Street
Beyerle Palace today occupied by Fouad Serag El Dine Pasha former minister of interior under King Farouk and incumbent president of Wafd Party since 1981.
Pre-WW1 imperial German chancery in Cairo; later Kasr El Dubara Girl's College run by Swedish headmistress Dagmar Berg during 1920s and 1930s.
DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW THE ARCHITECT OF BEYERLE PALACE ????
No. 23 Ismail Pasha Street; Palacci-Nagar Building seen from Villa Mosseri.
This three-floor French Mediterranean-style building was home to Vita and Albert Palacci. A Palacci grandaughter--Colette Rossant--mentions No. 23 in her cookbook "Memories of Lost Egypt." Other original residents are Elie and Moise (directors of the Cairo Bourse); and their sons Youssef, Zaki and Teddy Naggar.
In foreground prototype of suggested lamposts for district of Garden City.
Palacci-Naggar building located at 23 Ismail Pasha Street; present owner former diplomat Mahmoud Rashid. EAB Bank leases ground floor for its Garden City branch.
Side view of Villa Mosseri at No. 24 Ismail Pasha Street. Original owner Elie Nessim Mosseri vice-president of Cairo's then-thriving Jewish community; considered to be one of Egypt's riches bankers. Villa constructed pre-WW1 and property of Swiss government since late 1960s.
Villa Mosseri seen from Hod El Laban Street
Carriage house attached to Villa Mosseri
No. 2 Khalil Aga Street. Villa designed by Oscar Horowitz for account of Sir Ali Ibrahim Pasha (1880-1947) minister of public health (1940-41) and celebrated islamic-art collector. First Egyptian to head Fouad al-Awal (Cairo) University's School of Medicine and second rector (succeeding Lotfi al-Sayed) of same university.
Ali Ibrahim Pasha knighted by Britain for his outstanding work in the promotion of medical science and for performing the first successful surgical removal of the spleen.
Villa subsequenlty purchased by Syrian magnate Akram Ejje who in turn sold it in the 1970s to the late Sheik Mubarak al-Sabah of Kuwait who used it as offices.
In 2000 villa was sued to film the movie "el Nazer" (the headmaster)
Mourad Wahba Pasha villa on Corniche El Nil
Two floors and several other unsavory additions were introduced by its present owner Prince Sultan Ibn Seoud of Saudi Arabia