It is believed that the private S. Volpertas Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases built in 1930 was designed by German architect Erich Mendelsohn, the author of Postdam Observatory and other famous projects. It is said the architect himself has visited Volpertas. In order to ensure confidentiality of the patients, due to sensitive nature of their issues, the building was designed in way so that the patients would not be able to meet each other. The clinic was modern not only in terms of its architecture, but also its equipment. It is said that S. Volpertas was the first one to buy and use an x-ray machine in his clinic. In 1940 Volpertas’s house was inhabited first by a Red Army commandant an later – by a German commandant; meanwhile during the Soviet period it was a secret hotel for the government.
Vilija Ulinskytė-Balzienė