Raduškevičius Palace, Vilnius

Raduškevičius Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania is a late 19th‑century urban palace constructed between 1894 and 1900 in a Neo‑Gothic brick manner. Commissioned as both a private residence and an income property, it occupied a prominent terrace at the start of Kalvarijų Street beside the Neris river and contributed to the riverside view from the Old Town. The building’s mixed residential and rental function, and its later civic uses, made it a visible feature of the city’s built environment from the turn of the century onward.

Construction took place in successive stages during the 1890s. The first phase raised a principal western wing and began work on the north wing, followed by later campaigns that added a southeastern wing with a tower and raised the northern section to its final height. Around 1899–1900 an arched gallery and a unifying brick fence with gates linked the wings into a coherent complex. The original owner died in 1900 and the property passed to his heirs.

During the early decades of the 20th century ownership changed several times. A merchant acquired the palace by 1911, and the building underwent further reconstruction in the following years. Repairs were carried out after 1919. In 1923 the property was bought by the Singer brothers, who owned a glass factory, and by the late 1920s the palace contained multiple residential apartments; in 1939 a Lithuanian buyer from Riga became the owner.

After the Second World War the building was repurposed for institutional uses, serving as a dormitory for a pedagogical institute, then an ambulance station, and later as a forensic medical bureau. In 1962–1963 nearly half of the palace was demolished when the western wing and part of the northern wing were removed. One account links this work to widening the street, which at the time bore the name of F. E. Dzerzhinsky, while another account attributes the demolitions to official dislike of the building’s style.

The surviving portion was reconstructed and adapted in the mid‑1980s to house the Lithuanian Union of Architects. Since 2004 it has served as that organisation’s headquarters. A later modernization completed in 2013 enlarged the usable floor area from 1,640 to 2,320 square metres. The remaining structure is protected as a local architectural monument under designation AtV 63 and is entered in the state Register of Cultural Values with code 1037.