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Administrative "Lietūkis" Building

Kaunas, Lithuania
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This monumental four-story building is the former "Lietukis" administrative building. "Lietukis" was a center of cooperatives, connecting one and a half hundred commercial cooperatives. The union was established in Kaunas in 1923 and operated until the occupation of Lithuania and its liquidation in 1940. "Lietukis" contributed a lot by exporting farmers' products, providing cooperatives, and through them, consumers, with foreign and local goods. "Lietukis" had 23 warehouses of large goods in various towns of Lithuania, through which it supplied the existing cooperatives, warehouses, elevators, and mills around them. Grain buyers were operating all over the country. This organization took care of the export of eggs, butter, flax, seeds, and grains. It also imported mineral fertilizers, salt, agricultural machinery, cement, oil, sugar, iron, and consumer goods.

Having decided that the expanding union needed new and modern premises, in 1930 the project of this administrative building was drawn up and its construction started. The building was designed by engineer-architect Karolis Reisonas, who recently came to Kaunas from Siauliai to work. So this building is one of his first works in Kaunas. It is a large administrative building with a symmetrical main facade, arched windows, and small decorative details. Therefore the architecture of the building could be described as modernized historicism. As is typical for buildings of that era, the courtyard facade is much more modern than the representative main facade. In this building there were commercial, administrative premises and apartments, one of which lived in the building's author himself. The exterior of the building has recently been renovated, preserving the original architecture.

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