GalleryThe name "Jaunmokas" first appears in documents in the mid-16th century. Jaunmokas manor echos other architecture of the time—one can find similar examples in Riga—uniting gothic and Jugendstil architectural elements in a brick structure. The manor house was built to be the personal hunting lodge of George Armisted, the mayor of Riga. It was erected in 1901, designed by Wilhelm Bockslaff. However, when Armisted assumed ownership of Rindzele Manor after his father's death in 1904, he sold Jaunmokas manor.
The manor passed through a number of hands, eventually divided up in the agrarian reform of 1920, the land (nearly 1,400 hectares or 3,500 acres) and utility buildings rented out while the manor itself was taken over by the state and put to use as a recuperative facility for children.
Russians, Germans, then Russians occupied the manor during WWII. It was chopped up into offices, meeting rooms, stores, and apartments during the Soviet era, all the while falling further and further into disrepair. Parts had fallen into complete ruin by the time the forestry ministry took over in 1974, starting a restoration lasting more than two decades.
The state hunting enterprise took over in 1992; since 2000 the manor has been under the public Latvian state forests corporation. Restoration and improvements continue.
Hunting lodge of the former Riga mayor
Tile fireplace with scenes of Riga
Fireplace tile
Fireplace tile detail, City Theater (now National Opera)
Fireplace tile, Alexander Boulevard
Fireplace tile
- Discovering Latvia's Treasures - ABOUT
- Basilica of Our Lady of Aglona
- Bauska's castle ruins
- The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia
- Nature at home in Bolderaja
- Jaunmokas Manor
- Jelgava Palace
- Liepāja's past: faded, excised, under restoration, and Contius' organ
- Rundāle Palace, Rastrelli's Latvian masterpiece
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