Lamartine Housets owner was the eminent representative of the Plovdiv merchant class, Georgi Mavridi. It was built by some unknown master-builder in 1829- 1830 and is one of the biggest and most beautiful symmetrical houses in the Old City. It was brand new and in its full splendor of a remarkable architectural creation, when the great French poet and traveler Alphonse de Lamartine stayed there in the summer of 1833, on his way back from a journey to the Middle East.