Mentzendorff House is a historic Riga town house and museum at Grēcinieku iela 18. Its painted interiors, traces of a pharmacy and recovered glass fragments reveal successive lives of a carefully restored historic building.
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A few fragments found among building rubble can change the story of a room. At Mentzendorff House in Old Riga, painted window glass and glaziers’ tools helped researchers reconstruct the long life of a merchant’s house. Today the building is a museum of Riga’s urban domestic culture, but its rooms have served many people and purposes.
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- The house was built in 1695 and reconstructed in 1755.
- The Deer Pharmacy operated in the building from 1723 to 1902.
- After restoration, the historic house opened to the public in 1992.
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