Krikor Mazloumian of Antcherti, Cilicia, opened late in the 19^th century, Hotel Ararat–Aleppo’s first hotel with individual rooms and beds. The hotel was soon patronized by bankers, foreign notables, adventurers, archeologists and writers. Hotel guests were intrigued that the hotel’s all-Armenian staff addressed the owners as “baron.” They , too, began to call the Mazloumians Mr. Baron or simply Baron. When the family decided to build a modern hotel, they named it Baron’s Hotel. The three-storey hotel opened in 1911. During the Genocide of Armenians the Mazloumians took in novelist Krikor Zohrab, poet Vartkes, Yervant Odian, and Aram Andonian.

Krikor Mazloumian of Antcherti, Cilicia, opened late in the 19^th century, Hotel Ararat–Aleppo’s first hotel with individual rooms and beds. The hotel was soon patronized by bankers, foreign notables, adventurers, archeologists and writers. Hotel guests were intrigued that the hotel’s all-Armenian staff addressed the owners as “baron.” They , too, began to call the Mazloumians Mr. Baron or simply Baron. When the family decided to build a modern hotel, they named it Baron’s Hotel. The three-storey hotel opened in 1911. During the Genocide of Armenians the Mazloumians took in novelist Krikor Zohrab, poet Vartkes, Yervant Odian, and Aram Andonian.