The building, the house of Colonel Andreas Papadakis, is located at Vourvoures in Asi Gonia. The 20th-century building is L-shaped, forming two wings with an upper storey. It has rough masonry of unworked stones and cement mortar, plastered with the same material. There are ashlar lintels and medium-sized, roughly worked corner stones. The doors and windows are square. Inside the building are preserved the sockets of the beams of the wooden upper floor.

In 1941, the Supreme Committee of the Cretan Struggle (AEAK) was established, with Andreas Papadakis as a founding member. His house served as the headquarters of the organisation’s fight against the Germans.

The steering committee of the organisation consisted of Lieutenant Colonel Andreas Papadakis, Dr Ioannis Paizis, the magistrate Aristomenis Karakoulakis and the lawyers Andreas Polentas and Ioannis Ioannidis. The last two were executed by the Germans.
According to the “Report on the Activity of the Supreme Committee of the Cretan Struggle National Resistance Organisation” dated 17 February 1949, submitted by Aristomenes Karakoulakis and Ioannis Paizis in order to have AEAK recognised as a national organisation:
“Thus Andreas Papadakis then resided with his family at the site of Vourvoures in the province of Apokoronas, on the slopes of the White Mountains, having there a small farm with a small house. This location, isolated and in a suitable place, greatly facilitated communication with Middle East Command and assisted in the establishment there of the Organisation’s Headquarters, which also housed the representatives of Middle East Command with the wireless and other British nationals and Greeks holding British nationality.”

The organisation was indeed recognised for its participation in the struggle against the Germans. As the surviving archives confirm, the committee members worked with Middle East Command and the British operatives on the island.