The wooden house at 14 Vecpilsētas Street is an architectural monument of national importance and one of the oldest and most valuable wooden residential houses in Jelgava that has survived to the present day. When construction work began in 2018, the wooden house was in a critical condition; it did not rest on monolithic foundations but was held up by boulders and fragments of brickwork. For this reason, the building was lifted, new foundations were built, the house was set back down, and the original wooden structures of the historic building's volume were restored. It was a complex and unique process. (...)
Photograph used from the Jelgava Regional Tourism Centre