The Most Important Buildings in Lai Street in Tallinn
the floorboard of a hypocaust furnace with the openings
for for heat, inner portals, wall niches, a beam ceiling
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with some remnants of painting, etc. Along with the neighbouring buildings the house belongs
to a group known as Three Brothers.
47 Lai Street
At the end of Lai Street, near the town wall, there is a low round building. It is the town's
former horse-powered
treadmill, where grain
was ground for the
city folk in times of
war, when the enemy
besieged the city and
the watermills at the
moat outside the city
gates stopped, or in
winter when mill
wheels were frozen.
The first record of the
mill dates back to
1379. It was thoroughly repaired in the first half of the 16th century, in 1701-1702 it was
again under repairs and by 1741 once more dilapidated. Then it was turned over to the army
as a storehouse. In 1757 the mill and the palace of Peter I in its vicinity burnt down. The ruins
were rented out in 1772 to be built into stores
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