Creator Bio
Vitaliano Poselli
1838–1918
Vitaliano Poselli was a Christian Italian architect from Sicily. He studied architecture in Rome and his first commission was the design of the church of Santo Stefano in Istanbul in 1886. In 1888, he was engaged by Ottoman authorities to build the Imperial College in Salonika, where he settled and became one of the city’s most prolific and respected architects. Poselli received commendations for his work from Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Vittorio Emanuele II, the King of Italy.
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The Largest Mill in the Orient (Postcard)
When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…