The family home was not a manor, but a modest country house, though spacious and practical, not lacking a certain rustic elegance. It was a geometric building, slightly raised above ground level, with two large windows on each side. A large porch in front, you reached it climbing some seven wooden steps, a porch roof, shaped as a Greek pediment supported by two slender columns, these were giving the white, tin-roofed building a vague neoclassical style. George Călinescu, Viaţa lui Mihai Eminescu (The Life of Mihai Eminescu)