Ticho House

[1][better source needed] The Aga Rashid villa, as it was originally known after the man who built and owned it, was raised in the early 1860s outside the Old City walls.

It was typical of the urban Ottoman architecture of the time, with vaulted ceilings, thick walls and a large central hall flanked by side rooms.

[1] Among its first occupants was the family of the antiquities dealer Moses Wilhelm Shapira, whose daughter Myriam Harry described growing up there in her memoir, "La petite flle de Jerusalem.

[6] The Tichos hosted local and British government officials in their home, as well as artists, writers, academics and intellectuals.

Anna Ticho bequeathed the house and its contents, including her husband's Judaica collections and library, to the Israel Museum.