Liszt Institute Tallinn
Three different houses stood on the site of the present building in 1683. The following year a fire destroyed the medieval buildings. In 1798, the Kaulbars family had the noble house that still stands today built on the remaining foundations. It bears a strong resemblance to the family's other building, known as the 'Sword', and is therefore attributed to the same master builder.
Following the lines of the trapezoidal inner courtyard, a large neoclassical block of buildings was created in the 19th and 20th centuries from the smaller earlier structures, including the terrace garden of the terrace overlooking Long Foot (Pikk Jalg) Street. In the 1930s, the building was converted into 13 apartments.
The block was badly hit during the Second World War. The left wing was destroyed, and the building above Piiskopi Street was rebuilt in 1946, following the classical main façade. In Soviet times, the building housed the "Kreutzwald" National Library. It stood empty in the 1990s, and the whole block was restored in the mid-2000s. As part of this work, the inner courtyard wing, which was destroyed in the Second World War, was rebuilt.