These are the stories you can open in the 3D view, each at its own numbered point on the model.
1A merchant family's house
This is the house of the Robev family, merchants whose trade reached as far as Istanbul, Vienna and Leipzig. The brothers Angele and Anastas Robev bought this plot in 1825, and their first house was finished on 15 April 1827. In January 1861 it burned. The house you see was built again after the fire, in 1861 to 1863 according to the museum; another source gives 1863 to 1864.
Plot bought: 1825
First house: 1827, burned January 1861
Rebuilt: 1861–1863 (museum) or 1863–1864 (mk.wikipedia)
After the fire the house was rebuilt as a double house: the left half for Konstantin Robev, the right half for Anastas. You can see the join where the street front bends. The master builder was Todor Petkov of Gari. Woodcarvers from Debar worked inside, and the story goes that the team on one half was not allowed to see the other team's work.
The house follows the old Ohrid pattern. A ground floor of stone carries upper floors of timber frame, plastered white, and each floor steps out further over the street on brackets, so the house grows wider as it rises. The windows sit in long rows with small panes and dark frames. A wide hipped roof of red canal tiles rests on deep eaves.
Floors: stone ground floor, two upper floors and the širvan
At the very top, a small hall rises through the roof over the middle of the front. In Ohrid it is called the širvan. In the Robev house it holds the museum's collection of Ohrid woodcarving, a fitting place, since the carvers who worked on this house came from the Debar region. The floor below is laid out as the rooms of the Robev family.
Širvan: the top hall, woodcarving collection
Family floor: rooms of the Robev family
Also: the archaeology collection of the Ohrid museum
The house has been a museum since 1950. After a long reconstruction it opened again on 25 August 1990, with the archaeology collection of the Ohrid museum, the family rooms and the woodcarving hall. It is run by the town's Institute for the Protection of Monuments and Museum. The stairs inside are steep. The museum is closed on Mondays.
A few steps west, across Car Samoil street, stands the family house of the revolutionary Hristo Uzunov. Today it is a small memorial museum, also run by the Ohrid museum. Like the Robev house, it has a stone ground floor and white upper floors. On this short stretch of street you can see how closely the old houses of the merchants and craftsmen stood together.
