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Coordinates: 56°55'50,71'' N 24°04'38,85'' E Google Maps
(localisation not exact, possible mistake up to 400 metres)
No:25        (list of all monuments)
Category:Palaces and manor houses
Address:Riga, Agenskalns, at the northwestern bank of Mara pond, not localised
Year of construction:19th century?
Architectural style:Neo-Classicism
Condition:Does not exist
Value:Architecture

 

Mara pond once was especially picturesque. At its bank, in the front of Altona manor there was located luxuriant manor house built in Neo-Classicism style. There was floating openwork bridge across the pond in front of manor. Building had one floor with two-floor annex – rotunda. This annex had cupola-shaped roof standing on four columns.

The bridge across Mara pond existed also in 1879.

 

References

  1. Koka Rīga, Rīga, Neputns, 2001, 93., 202. lpp.

 

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