Nasseef House

When Abdulaziz Ibn Saud entered the city in December 1925, after the siege of Jeddah, he stayed in the Bayt Nasseef.

[citation needed] John R. Bradley, author of Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis, described the Nasseef House as "kind of social salon" in the 1920s, as consuls and merchants gathered there.

This rather describes more the period during which it was built than relationship to designs popular in the Umayyad and Abbasids cultural centers at this time such as Baghdad, Cordoba and Damascus .

[3] The style is thought to be more related to stylistic elements found along the Red Sea, Egypt and maybe the Levant at that time.

To the left and right of the entrance hall, there are somewhat smaller rooms, that occupy the northern corners of the house.

The fourth-floor rooms except in the southeastern part are covered by flat roofs in different levels, some usable as terraces.

On the fifth floor, the kitchen resides above the main stairway in the middle of the southern part of the building.

Even if animals were used to carry heavy loads upstairs, one may consider it easier to direct a donkey around the turns of the stairway.

A model of the Nasseef House may be viewed in the Jeddah Regional Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography.