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Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) Tallinn
The finest surviving Jugendstil buildings in Tallinn, from Rosenbaum's dragon houses to Kadriorg's wooden Art Nouveau.
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Leppenberg House, Roosikrantsi 15
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Wooden Art Nouveau house, Tatari 21a
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Burman House, Tatari 21b
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Luther Factory People's House, Vana-Lõuna 37
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Wooden Jugend house, Weizenbergi 12
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Wooden Jugend house, Weizenbergi 10
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Wooden Jugend house, Koidula 9
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Seamen's Home (Meremeeste Kodu), Uus-Sadama 14
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Tallinn is famous for its medieval Old Town, but for a short, intense decade before the First World War the city also embraced Art Nouveau — known here as Jugendstil or juugend. Two currents met in Tallinn: the flamboyant, ornament-heavy 'Riga school', seen in Jacques Rosenbaum's dragon-guarded houses, and the sober, granite-clad Nordic National Romanticism that arrived from Finland with architects like Eliel Saarinen and Armas Lindgren. This map gathers the city's finest surviving Jugendstil buildings — stone palaces in the centre, wooden apartment houses in Kadriorg — with the story of each and what makes it Art Nouveau.