Routes

2020 August 18
Valtienės vilos ikonėlė

Villa of Valčiai family

Two adjacent summer houses in Kačerginė belonged to sisters Pranciška Ona Skomskienė and Zofija Valtienė. Both of them were designed and built by their brother Juozas Paulauskas. The summer houses designed by the same person also had individual features. The villa of Zofia and her husband Jonas, a lawyer, had a wooden tower typical of the resort architecture, which stands out and protrudes in the crowns of trees to this day.
2020 August 3
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Textile factory “Kauno audiniai”

Textile factories have become significant places of modernization and architectural innovations both in Europe and in Lithuania since the Industrial Revolution. The largest textile factories in Lithuania began to sprout in the second half of the 1930s, mainly in Kaunas and Klaipeda. It was the golden age of the textile industry in Lithuania.
2020 June 30
lietukio ikonele 3

Former office building of the “Lietūkis” company

Apparently, the office of one of the largest cooperatives in Lithuania, which had a very significant impact on the economy of independent Lithuania, seems a bit modest. Especially when comparing it with the offices of "Pažanga" or "Pienocentras" companies in Laisvės Avenue. However, the "palace" of the company was considered to be a real decoration of Vytautas Avenue.
2020 June 24
kino teatras odeon

Movie theater “Odeon”

This was the first building built especially for a movie theatre in Kaunas. Although cinema in Kaunas was not new before, from 1907 to 1926 it was not shown in buildings built specifically for cinemas, but only in buildings adapted to them, usually in various halls.
2020 April 28

Office of the “Ateitininkai” organization

"Ateitininkai" is a Catholic youth organization that, in addition to social and educational activities, took care of the material support of its members, including students, and tried to create conditions for poor young people to study. In 1928 the building, which opened its doors, became the organization’s refuge, its economic and cultural center.
2020 February 3

State printing house, later – Vytautas Magnus University

The construction of this building was driven by the need to have a state printing house, which had to fully meet the needs of the state press. This is the first large state edifice built during the period of national independence, the first to be built as a result of an international bidding competition, and the first designed by a foreign architect.
2020 February 3

The Ministry of Justice and the Parliament building

This is the building that once proclaimed: "Justice is the foundation of states". During the interwar period, just a few buildings were created for state institutions, so these few examples allow us to look at how the state sought to represent itself in architectural spaces. The Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Tribunal and other judicial services, and later the Seimas (Parliament), were established here.
2019 October 30

Residential house of Janina Rožanskienė

This house was built in 1939 and belonged to the dentist Janina Rožanskienė. She not only lived, but also worked here. No less interesting is the fact that the doctor took care not only of the beauty of his patients' mouths, but also of the street, where the house stood.
2019 October 23

Summerhouse of engineer E. Venckiavičius

According to current owners, this summerhouse was built in 1939. It belonged to Venckiavičiai family. It is not yet known who is the author of this villa project. It is believed that it was designed by the first homeowner himself, in consultation with architect V. Landsbergis, who had the summerhouse in the neighborhood. The house has remained essentially unchanged until today.