No. 8, 10 and 12 of Jāņa (John) Street

No. 8, 10 and 12 of Jāņa (John) Street around 1900

No. 8, 10 and 12 of Jāņa (John) Street in 2013

 № 8 There is no evidence when the house shown in the postcard was built. From the end of the 18th century until at least 1811 there was a wooden house of the 3rd Guild merchant Peysach Lewin, the supervisor of the synagogue buildings, but in 1834 it belonged to the watchmaker Benjamin Kuhn, who had learned his trade at the beginning of the century in Königsberg, and had lived in this house already in 1811.

In 1838, Benjamin Behr bought the house at auction for 1,370 Silver Rubles, from whom it was inherited by Karoline Behr, born Mathias in 1853.

In 1864, there was a change of ownership, when this property was bought for 2,500 Rubles by Karoline Freiberg, from whom it was bought in 1873 for 1,400 Rubles by the merchant S. B. Tamborer.

In 1877, there was another change of ownership. This time the buyer was Behr Gawronsky, who bought it for 1,600 Rubles.

In 1879, there was a shingle roof workshop for Behr Gawronsky here in his own house, where he worked with three assistants. The coachman Leiser Marks has also worked here with one assistant. In 1884, Gawronsky already had 4 assistants, Marks 2.

The house belonged to the Gawronskys until 1910, when it was bought at an auction for some 600 Rubles by Abraham Nathansohn. In addition to the street house, there were two smaller residential houses in the yard.

In 1917, the photographer Jakob Berger was there.

In the 1930s, Anna Jozefoviča's teahouse, Olga Nathanson's hairdresser's, Krišs Melberg's winery were at this address, but at the end of 1939, the Town Council granted an intoxicating beverage store concession on № 8 Jāņa Street to Jānis Bencins.

In 1938 the property was inherited by Abram Nathanson's daughter and two sons, but in 1939 the daughter Olga Nathanson was confirmed as the owner.

Today - a municipal house that was built in the second half of the last century.

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