Kalvenes Street House No. 7

Kalvenes Street House No. 7 around 1930

Kalvenes Street House No. 7 in 2016

On the left side of the photo, you can see the buildings at № 16, № 14, № 12 and № 10 Kalvenes Street, with which we have already got acquainted, so now we will pay attention to the house on the right side in the former № 7 Boju Street.

Until April 5, 1870, the plot on which this building was built was part of the plot of land on № 6 Jelgavas Street owned by Königsfest. When he sold it to A. Burbewitz, judging by the purchase price - 2200 Rubles, there was already a residential house.

On January 8, 1871, Königsfest bought back this new plot of land from Burbewitz for 2,000 Rubles and sold it two months later to Orta Jansone, born Sperling, for only 1125 Rubles, to be sold to Jānis Cālītis a year later for 1150 Rubles.

On March 15, 1883, the plot of land, along with a building that was in a very bad state, was bought by Aizpute builder Fricis Ratnieks for 700 Rubles, but on May 11 sold to the Head of the Fire Brigade Karl Wilhelm Gottfried Wassileffsky for 2,700 Rubles, provided that the seller would do necessary repairs to the building and cover it with boards within 4 weeks. However, three years later, Ratnieks had not kept his promise, and Wassileffsky lodged a complaint with the Town Magistrate, which instructed Ratnieks to put the building in order.

In 1895, the building was inherited by Louise Wassileffsky and her children, but in 1905 it was bought at auction for 550 Rubles by Karl Stern, who probably built the house shown in the photo, the condition of which in 1915 was described as average. In 1924, Stern sold it to Jozefs Cerns for 4020 Lats.

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