Özet:

The city of Elbistan is located in the Upper Phraat Division of the Eastern Anatolian Region, linked to the Kahramanmaraş province in the northeastern part of the Mediterranean Region.The history of Elbistan, which has grown into many civilizations, dates back to the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic Epochs. The history of the city can be said that the Hithites, the Romans, the Selchucks and the Dulkadiro sons struck the mark. It is clear that the houses in Elbistan that reached the present day and form the city's traditional civil architecture began to be built in the districts of Kızılcaoba, Ceyhan and Köprübaşı from the second half of the 19th century. Before this period, in the city, the construction was easy and cheap, the material was abundant, and the construction of the zahire was also allowed, flat, land dropled, wooled houses were built. In this work, the structural status, architectural characteristics, distribution and the work to be done for traditional houses, which are an important indicator of cultural heritage and historical wealth, are discussed in Kahramanmaraş Illi Elbistan City in a geographical perspective. Traditional houses located in the Elbistan district are building materials, construction techniques, architectural characteristics and architectural importance but not sufficiently possessed and unknown cultural heritage examples throughout the country. With the identification and registration of traditional houses, these houses have not yet been brought into a state of preservation of cultural heritage. The ministry and provincial authorities need to give serious support to the work on the provision of traditional houses to tourism.The idea of making the style of the traditional houses in the district of Kızılcaoba is important both in terms of cultural heritage and in terms of Elbistan Tourism.The opening of the city museum and the transformation of the house used as the command center in the Liberation War into the museum house will be an important step in terms of the possession of the city's heritage and the contribution to tourism. This work will also contribute to the conservation and evaluation of traditional houses by collecting the work done in this field.