Goangă House (Casa Goangă) is a historic residence in Curtea de Argeș, dating from around the beginning of the 19th century. One of the largest surviving traditional houses in the town’s historic center, it has a broad wooden porch overlooking the courtyard, a steep shingled roof, and living quarters raised above a substantial stone cellar.
The house was built for the Ștefănescu-Goangă family, whose name originated with Zamfir Ștefănescu, a local beekeeper nicknamed Goangă. Following the destruction caused by Austrian troops in Curtea de Argeș in 1788, he commissioned a new residence that was completed around 1800. It became the family home for several generations, including the ancestors of psychologist Florian Ștefănescu-Goangă and opera singer Petre Ștefănescu-Goangă.
The house preserves the characteristic arrangement of a traditional Argeș residence, with its main rooms reached by a staircase leading to the covered wooden porch. Beneath the living quarters, a vaulted cellar is accessible through a separate entrance at street level. The combination of masonry walls, timber construction, and a roof covered in wooden shingles gives the building its distinctive appearance.
During the communist period, the property was taken over by the state and briefly used for museum exhibitions between 1969 and 1972. It subsequently accommodated the municipal library and later came into the care of the Romanian Artists’ Union, which carried out restoration work before the house was returned to the Ștefănescu-Goangă family in 1996.
