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Summerhouse of Engineer Edmundas Venckiavičius

Kačerginė, Lithuania
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Nuotraukoje esantis berniukas - dabartinis namo seiminkas Vytautas. Seimos archyvo nuotrauka.

Fearing the Soviet authorities, the first owners of the house, the Venckiavicius family, sold the house and moved out with great sadness. However, by mutual agreement, the old owners were allowed to spend five years in the house, which is where virtually all the historical knowledge about the house comes from. It is believed that the house was built as a summer house in 1939. The engineer Edmundas Venckiavicius had three children. Already at that time, the summer house was designed as a future inheritance, divided into three parts: one side of the ground floor with a veranda for one child, one for another, and the second floor for the third. The house was surrounded by a wooden fence. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of information about the engineer himself. According to the current owners, he was connected with the railway infrastructure, as all the posts of the fence are made of narrow gauge railway tracks. It is still not known who designed the house. However, it is possible that it was designed by the owner of the house himself, in consultation with V. Landsbergis, an architect who used to spend his summers nearby and stay in the neighbourhood. Furthermore, his summer house was being built at the same time, right next door. The house has remained essentially unchanged to this day. The original window divisions have been retained and preserved. Only the balcony railings have rotted over time and have been removed.

In the post-war period, the house was, for a while, a shop and a snack bar. The location was convenient, so it eventually became a centre of attraction for the locals.

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