The village of Kendice in the Prešov district was founded during the 13th century. It is mentioned as early as 1249 as the property of the landowner Peter of the Abovec family and the magistrate Job, in the 14th century as part of the estate of Šariš Castle. From the 15th to the 17th century there were Malé and Veľké Kendice. Part of the population was made up of nobility with the surname „from Kendice“ , known as the noble family „Kendi“. In those times it was the most wealthy and influential family. The nobility that later lived in Kendice moved to the village from the Lower Lands after the occupation of the southern territory of Hungary by the Turks. The wealthiest families were the Jamborský, Hrabeczy, Szakmary and Petróczy families. It was the Hrabeczy family who had a manor house built in 1793, which has been preserved without major modifications to this day. Their initials are still preserved on the railing on the first floor of the manor.
The manor house was built in the Baroque style as a brick stone two-storey building with a covered, originally wooden shingle roof. The individual facades are now divided by moulded cornices, the windows with historic fillings have over-window and under-window cornices. The interior is covered mainly with plain tile and roll-vaulted roofs, the upper floor with wooden beams. The original sandstone stone floor should be retained. The most representative room has a tiled stove of circular plan. The manor house also included outbuildings, a pond and a network of deep cellars under the manor house. Next to the building there is an old stone-lined well and behind it an ice house. This is where they used to keep pieces of ice to better store food. In 1875, a post office and a notary's office were established in the village and located in the manor house. The post office was in the manor house until 1908. The Hrabeczy family lived in the village until 1920, and although they sold their property, they remained living in the manor. Then in the 1930s the manor house was again used as a post office. After World War II the building changed hands. From the 1970s it ceased to be used regularly, but regular maintenance work was carried out on it. This has also contributed to its good preservation. Today it is privately owned.
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