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House of Zenonas and Elena Gerulaičiai

Panemunė, Lithuania
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By Huriye Armağan Doğan, 2021

One of the more striking examples of interwar functionalism in the resort district of Aukstoji Panemune in Kaunas is the residential house designed by architect Kazis Dubauskas in 1934 for Zenonas Gerulaitis, a volunteer of the Lithuanian Independence Struggle, a division general, and his wife, Elena.

The building is brick, two-storey, with an attic, set back from the street on a spacious rectangular plot. The main entrance is located in a high basement. The staircase wall is carved with distinctive recessed path lines. Similar elements are also present in the balcony and the eaves of the second storey. The vertical edge at the main door and the extension through the second stage to the roof of the building are also emphasised with decorative rustication. To the left of the main facade is a projecting curved bay. The basement and the two floors are arranged as follows: on the basement floor, there are two rooms, a kitchen, a laundry room, apple and vegetable stores, a woodshed and a boiler room; on the ground floor, above the boiler room in the basement, there is a kitchen, above the rooms there is a dining room, a guest room and a spacious study; the first floor is used as a recreation room, with two bedrooms, a daughter's room, a children's room, an aunt's room, and a bathroom as well as a bathroom, as on the ground floor.

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