The architect Klaudijus Dušauskas-Duž (Клаўдзій Душ-Душэўскі), who lived and worked in Kaunas in the interwar period, was born in Glubok in 1891. After the February Revolution of 1917 in Russia, K. Dushauskas became a commissioner of the Central Council of Belarusian Organisations in St. Petersburg and collaborated with the largest Belarusian political force - the Belarusian Socialist Hramada (BSH). Dushauskas-Duz's most significant contribution to Belarus was the design of the national flag: the white-red-white flag became popular among Belarusians after the February Revolution. Both civil and military organisations used it.
The Lithuanian side of the architect's biography began in 1924 when Dušauskas enrolled at the Faculty of Technology of the University of Lithuania. K. Dušauskas graduated in 1927 and obtained the rights of a chartered engineer. One of his first works was designing the Metropolitan cinema building, which he prepared with Prof. Vladas Dubeneckis. From 1930-1931, Dušauskas worked for the joint-stock company "Maistas", where he developed infrastructure and built factories in Kaunas and other Lithuanian cities. Later, Dušauskas joined the Ministry of Transport and Communications. After taking the position of the Postal Board's construction officer, he designed the Postal Palace and other buildings, including the Postal Palace in Žemuosiai Šančiai, which was built in 1935.
K. Dušauskas's architectural work included the design and construction of residential houses. His works were designed in the functionalist style, and most of his surviving buildings are located in Žaliakalnis or the centre of Kaunas. The house where he used to live with his family was also one of those buildings in Žaliakalnis. It used to have red brick walls and was not plastered when it was first built. However, during the Soviet era, the house was plastered and painted. Klaudijus Dušauskas-Duž himself lived on the ground floor of the house with his wife Elena and son Steponas. The other flats were mainly distributed to Russian newcomers. In its original design, the building had a semi-basement floor and two floors on top. It had a relatively simple façade with a pitched roof. However, another floor was added to the building later with wooden material. So it is not possible to see its original roof anymore. It has an expressive staircase, which can be easily seen from the façade.
