The Chronaki House is a mansion house located in the old neighborhood of "Koutala", as the Christians called it the old days.

The house was built by Rasich Aspraki Bey, a wealthy Turkish merchant, after the terrible earthquake of 1856. Architectural design of the building was based on the standards of the mansions of Thessaly and northern Greece. After a grave natural disaster, Heraklion applied strictly the Ottoman imperial building regulations regarding reconstruction. The house Chronaki is the starkest example of this style. Actually, the building's interior exudes the air of a bygone era.

During population exchange that followed the Treaty of Lausanne in 1922, the house became the property of the family Chronaki since been designated as exchangeable (received its current name from the new owners). In 1969 expropriated by the Ministry of Culture, and in 1983 was granted for twenty years in the municipality of Heraklion. The Municipality of the renovated and in 1991 was visited as a museum. Inside there were many household items, paintings, furniture and many family manuscripts. In recent years, however, is closed and inaccessible to the public.