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The Corner House (Latvian: Stūra māja) was known as the headquarters of the Soviet KGB in Latvia from 1940 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1991. It was designed by architect Aleksandrs Vanags, the construction of the house was started in 1910, and was built in 1912 as apartments and shops. It housed the music school of the Imperial Russian Society of Music, a library and a bookstore, sweets and fruit, dairy products, flower shops, and a pharmacy of the Ministry of National Welfare. During the Latvian War of Independence, the Latvian Revolutionary War Committee used the building briefly in 1919. From 2015 the house is used by the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia for an exposition about the history of the KGB in Latvia.
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