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Uppsala House

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38: 234: 540: 273:, an older brick building. Both buildings are to the north of the town centre. The house is owned by the city of Tartu. The building was intended to be financed from a number of sources including rental of its rooms. In 2010 there was a crisis because the occupancy rates had been low at a time of economic recession. The accommodation is no longer available. 241:
The overall plan of the building was stable by 1828 when the two-storey house had this ground plan. The building has been put to a multitude of uses: in the nineteenth century it was used as a students residence and as a butcher shop. Other professionals that have lived here include a saddle maker, a
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of Uppsala and Tartu agreed to a joint programme to cooperate in the "Restoration of Old Buildings" initiative. The renovation of Uppsala House was completed in 1996. Photographs taken before this renovation did not show any
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in Sweden, and was operated as a five-bedroom guest house until 2010. Since then, it has served as the office of the Department of Public Relations of Tartu City Government.
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One of the oldest wooden buildings in Tartu, it dates from the 1750s. The oldest part of the building is the northern part, dated by studying the timbers using
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The house is located on one of the main streets in Tartu Old Town known as Jaani ("St. John's"). It is close to
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The house was operated as a five-bedroom guest house until 2010, when financial losses led to its closure.
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in the northern part of the Old Town. The house was renovated in cooperation with Tartu's sister city of
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tailor, and an official of the Livonian court. In 1937 the building was partially rebuilt after a fire.
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that consumed most of the wooden buildings in central Tartu. After the fire the city was rebuilt along
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Dendrochronology enabled later additions to be dated to be between 1777 and 1782.
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Tartu
Estonia
Coordinates
58°22′59″N 26°43′05″E / 58.3831°N 26.7181°E / 58.3831; 26.7181
www.uppsalamaja.ee
Estonian
Tartu
St John's Church
Uppsala
dendrochronology
Great Fire of Tartu
Late Baroque
Neoclassical

Mansard roof
twinned cities
dormer windows
St John's Church
Department of Public Relations





"Historical Background"
"The Town Hall of Tartu"


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