An engineer from Šiauliai city, Vladas Bitė, designed a stone primary school in the new part of the city, on the parceled land of former Gubernija Manor. The building was designed for a ten-complect school, however when in 1933 “Ausra” museum was temporary moved to its second floor, the school was open only in the first floor, and in the basement there were two flats for the guards. The museum had its premises in the school temporarily, after the construction of the Museum and Library Palace, planed by architect’s Karolis Reisonas project, was postponed. It was planned to move the museum in the future, and establish additional four classes, a hall, a book store and needlework class, all on the second floor of the school, establish school’s museum in the attic. However it happened quite the opposite – today the whole building is owned by Šiauliai “Aušra” museum. The volume of the building is symmetric, the central symmetry is emphasized by a risalite. The composition of the facades is clear, dominated by horizontal windows’ rhythm. School’s typology is clearly seen in building’s architecture.
Vilija Ulinskytė-Balzienė