North Africa, Dar Hassan Pacha Drawing Room, 1902
Drawing Room, governor's winter palace, Algiers, North Africa. Dar Hassan Pacha is an 18th century palace located in the Casbah of Algiers, Algeria. It was built in 1791 and used to belong to Hassan III Pasha. After 1830, it became the winter residence of the Governor of Algiers, and as a consequence, it was completely remodeled in 1839, when the entrance has been changed and a new facade was created. Algiers is located on the Mediterranean Sea and in the north-central portion of Algeria. The history of Algiers from 1830 to 1962 is bound to the larger history of Algeria and its relationship to France. On July 4, 1830, under the pretext of an affront to the French consul a French army under General de Bourmont attacked the city in the 1830 invasion of Algiers. The city capitulated the following day. Algiers became the capital of French Algeria. International View Company, 1902
