Central Market warehouses on Gaizina Street in central Riga, Latvia. October 10, 2021
The first warehouse in the area was built in 1864 and the newest in 1886, gradually replacing the previous wooden storehouses or ambars that had been there since 1812. A total of 58 stone spires were built. They were used as warehouses for about a century but lost their functional role in 1903-1907 when a new goods station was built in 1903. Some of the red warehouses in the district were liquidated in 1924-1930 when the Riga Central Market was built. The remaining warehouses were used as hay, oat, linseed, and carpentry stores, strikers' workshops, electric motor and agricultural machinery warehouses, grain warehouses, plywood warehouses, egg warehouses, etc. The warehouses form a spatially incomplete, yet coherent ensemble of buildings. In accordance with the special building regulations for the quarter, all warehouses have facades that correspond to each other, i.e. are modelled in a similar manner and harmoniously coherent. They are in the so-called 'brick style', one of the formal variants of the 19th-century eclectic style, which is particularly common in the architecture of industrial buildings, warehouses, and other buildings of an economic nature.
Central Market warehouses on Gaizina Street in central Riga, Latvia. October 10, 2021
The first warehouse in the area was built in 1864 and the newest in 1886, gradually replacing the previous wooden storehouses or ambars that had been there since 1812. A total of 58 stone spires were built. They were used as warehouses for about a century but lost their functional role in 1903-1907 when a new goods station was built in 1903. Some of the red warehouses in the district were liquidated in 1924-1930 when the Riga Central Market was built. The remaining warehouses were used as hay, oat, linseed, and carpentry stores, strikers' workshops, electric motor and agricultural machinery warehouses, grain warehouses, plywood warehouses, egg warehouses, etc. The warehouses form a spatially incomplete, yet coherent ensemble of buildings. In accordance with the special building regulations for the quarter, all warehouses have facades that correspond to each other, i.e. are modelled in a similar manner and harmoniously coherent. They are in the so-called 'brick style', one of the formal variants of the 19th-century eclectic style, which is particularly common in the architecture of industrial buildings, warehouses, and other buildings of an economic nature.