Casa Chiojdul Mic
Muntenia, Buzău county
Chiojdu, Romania
This 18th century house has been relocated to the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest, and is part of a preserved gospodărie, or homestead. The building has a stone masonry cellar and upper living floor of plastered and limewashed masonry, and a hipped roof clad with fir shingles. The dwelling is fronted by a projecting entrance porch called a cerdac (chardak), a term used in southern Romania, likely assimilated from neighboring Bulgaria or Turkey. Common Romanian terms for porch elements are foişor or prispă. (photo 2000)
