In 1923, due to the Lausanne Exchange of Populations, the Mavridis family migrated from Tekirdag to Greece, and the Eskinat family, who came from Thessaloniki, settled in the house they had abandoned. Dimitrios Mavridis and Ekrem Eskinat, children of the family who were exchanged as part of the population exchange, are actually children of the same house. Mavridis spent his childhood in Athens. Influenced by his father's dying words, "Our house in Tekirdag," Dimitrios Mavridis spent 50 years researching Tekirdag, collecting hundreds of unique old photographs of the city, and wrote 12 books about it. Mavridis, who searched for his family home in Tekirdag for years, found a photograph of the house during one of his visits to Tekirdag and immediately began searching for it. He looked at the photograph in his hand and then at the house.

Years later, Ekrem Eskinat, while researching old Tekirdag photographs, found Mavridis through the signature under the photos. Eskinat immediately took action to protect history and peace. He went to Mavridis's house in Athens. He examined Mavridis's collection, which contained approximately 1500 photographs of Tekirdag. During one of those visits, it was revealed that families who had been displaced as part of the population exchange lived in the same house. Eskinat told Mavridis, "You have to give us these photographs. Because now neither I am Turkish nor you are Greek. We are children of the same house."

The mansion was converted into a museum by the Suleymanpasa Municipality. The biggest factor in choosing the mansion for the museum was that Dimitrios Mavridis, who had a huge collection of over 1500 photographs of Tekirdag over 150 years, had lived there. Mavridis donated this priceless collection to the Tekirdag Suleymanpasa Municipality.