Cat House Riga. The Cat House in Rīga is part of a beautiful square in the UNESCO World Heritage listed old town. Their building is situated just across the street from the Cat House.
It goes something like this. The Latvian owner of the building was excluded from the powerful Big Guild across the road - so he ordered the cats to be turned around as an insult to his enemies. The local story goes that the owner of the house was refused membership of the Riga Tradesmens Guild Great Guild by the merchants.
Friedrich Schefel and Heinrich Scheel are regarded as pioneers of Riga Art Nouveau architecture.
The building was owned by a wealthy Latvian trader who out of bitter resentment for not being admitted to the Great Guild put cat figures bearing expressive postures on. Riga the capital of Latvia is home to the Cat House known as such because of the two sculptures of cats high on its roof. The Large Guild and the Cat House in Rigajpg. Now there are already more than 80.