Kr. Barona iela 59/61
I've noticed that photos of such buildings are being liked by many visitors of riga.in.
So, here is one more wooden building, which is located on Krišjāņa Barona iela 59/61.
The address is so strange, because before, when in place of two old houses was built a new one, the new one took two sequence numbers.
Those numbers are connected by slash, though it is more often called as fraction bar.
I am interested is it same numbering system in many other countries? :)
P.S. Driving school Mustangs has an office in this building.
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Interesting! As always, great site (riga.in). About numbering system: In Brazil, in such situation, only one number will be applied, in general the lowest one. Berg
We have the same numbering system in Poland. Sometimes there are more than two numbers (buildings) connected in new one. Usually in such situacion only the first and the last numbers are presented in address, for example: Marszalkowska 126/134.
words fail me.really lovely building!
in Barcelona (Spain) we have the same system, but we use this symbol "-". Usually, it's used when the building is really huge, and they consider it's taking a lot of space!
In addition, when they build a new building, if they want to follow the previous sequence of numbers, they add "BIS" (Encore)... For example, after Num. 9, Num. 9 BIS!
:)
In Vienna it would be 38 - 42.
If there is new a house in between consecutive numbers, it would be called with following letters, e.g.
38a.
Adrese attiecas uz divām ēkām - koka un trīsstāvu mūra māju (attēlā pa kreisi), tādēļ ir 59/61. Kāpēc tas tā, nezinu. Taču vēsturiski pirmā bija koka ēka, kura daļēji tika pārbūvēta par filca fabriku, bet, tai attīstoties, tika piebūvēta mūra māja gan pagalmā, gan blakus. Tā kā tas viss piederēja vienam cilvēkam, varbūt tādēļ arī adresi iedeva tādu apvienojošu.
Such a beautiful building!