By the 1900s it was for a change, so the former inn became a hotel, Hotel Gabroveni-Universal, very stylish and popular for his time, but many still had the nostalgia of the previous inn. As if no matter what, the Gabroveni Inn had to stay an inn, so no wonder that by the middle of last century, in the Golden Age of interwar Romania, it was partly once again a commercial building. And an interesting detail is that it's name, Gabroveni, actually came due to the fact that the inn was a meeting place for merchants from the Bulgarian town of Gabrovo.
One of the few and so even more precious survivors of the past, the building kept breaking apart over the next decades, and even if in the 1970s several projects to restore it were put together, nothing came of this. So as it became a full fledged "commercial center" at that time, and it would take another few decades of neglect and falling apart before in the later years it was saved and restored. And even if some say that it is nothing if you compare it to the legend of the old Gabroveni Inn, nowadays it is an art center which hosts plays, art exhibits, and various events.
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