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House of Engineer Stasys Čiurlionis

Kaunas, Lithuania
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The plots, which are marked as number 9 and number 11 now, used to belong to the engineer Stasys Čiurlionis in the interwar period. The first house, which was built in 1920 on plot number 9, was a wooden, farm-type house. The other building on number 11 was a three-storey brick house, probably for rent, which was built in 1933. A small commemorative plaque hanging on the wall of the house states that the lawyer and historian Konstantinas Jablonskis (son of the linguist J. Jablonskis) lived here from 1931 to 1941. Jablonskis worked as a clerk in various judicial institutions and was also actively working on the protection of Lithuanian history. He took care of the organisation of Lithuanian archives, chaired the Archaeological Commission, drafted laws on the protection of cultural monuments, and founded the Lithuanian Historians' Association.

The aforementioned three-storey brick building has a basement, a ground floor and two more floors on top. There is one flat each on the ground floor and the upper floors. However, the flat on the ground floor is smaller than the others since there is a passageway to the back garden. This floor is divided from the other floors by a cornice on the front façade. The main entrance and the staircase of the building are on the west side of the building, which is gradually behind the main surface. At the front façade, the entrance is emphasised by a two-storey high window. However, the height was divided into three by two transoms. Three rows of windows are formed between these parts, separated from each other by small vertical projections resembling pilasters. At the top of the building, there is a massive cornice, which is typical of interwar Lithuanian architecture. The windows of the front façade have small frieze-like ornaments under their windowsills. The plans of the flats are flexible, and it is possible to access rooms not only from the corridor but also from each other. The building has a pitched roof; however, the parapet in front of it gives the impression that it has a flat roof.

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