Villa Mihail C. Suțu (Vila Mihail C. Suțu) is a historic residence on the seafront of Constanța, built in 1899 for scholar, numismatist and politician Mihail C. Suțu.
Designed by architect Grigore Cerchez, the villa was inspired by Moorish and Middle Eastern architecture and was built into the slope of the cliff across three levels, with its principal façade facing the Black Sea. At the center is a large living room extending through two storeys and opening onto an arcaded loggia and terrace above the shore. A tower rises above the house with another terrace at the top, while crenellations, carved capitals, arabesque decoration and bulb-shaped forms give the exterior its distinctive appearance.
The oriental character continued inside, where rooms were decorated after palaces in places such as Damascus, Algiers and Constantinople, with polychrome ceilings, stucco ornament and oil-painted decoration. The house was also unusually modern for its time and was probably one of the first private residences in Constanța equipped with central heating. Suțu filled the villa with his collections of coins, antiquities and archaeological finds from Tomis, many of which he later left to the Romanian Academy.
After Suțu’s death in 1933, the villa passed through a series of very different uses. Soviet forces occupied it in 1944 and kept a command post here until 1955, after which it housed a cultural center and public library. From the 1970s until 1990 it served as the Czechoslovak consulate, and between 1993 and 2005 it housed the Constanța Court of Appeal.
