Riga, Latvia: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia headquarters - neoclassical façade with Ionic tetrastyle portico on Riga's main street, Krisjana Valdemara Iela (formerly named after Gorky, Herman Göring and tzar Nicholas II). Frieze bearing a quotation by Roman historian and politician Gaius Sallustius Crispus "Concordia parvae res crescunt", Latin for "The small flourish by concord". Completed in 1913 to a design by August Vite, based on a concept by Karlis Emkes for the Riga Mortgage Society ('Rīgas Hipotēku biedrība'). After the building had many tenants: Cabinet of Ministers, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Chancellery, Ministry of the Interior, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia, Wehrmacht Ostland Command Headquarters and Riga Command Office, Riga City Council... Authority | Built Structure | City | Architecture | Travel Destinations

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