Three Brothers, Riga

The Three Brothers ( Latvian Tris Brali ) are a group of buildings in the old town of Riga. The House 17 is the oldest secular stone building in the urban area, it was built in the 15th century with features Dutch Renaissance houses. The house might once have belonged to a master baker, they found a broken maltes guild or family coat of arms image with grain ears under the plaster. The facade of the house was decorated 19 bauplastisch in the style of Mannerism, the house 21 received a baroque pediment.

At smallest plots built as industrial and commercial buildings, was used in these houses, worked and driven trade. All three houses are equipped with wood ceiling, in the center of which is a gap, through which one could condescend goods in the various floors with a rope.

The three brothers were destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in the 1950s again. Today the buildings house the Museum of Latvian architecture and the offices of the conservation authority.