Following the land reform performed in the region of Suvalkija at the beginning of the 19^th century, the majority of villages were divided into individual farms. Such individual farmsteads were arranged around a specious rectangular yard separated into residential (clean) and farming parts by a fence. A residential house, a barn and a well were located in the clean yard, whereas a stackyard, cattle sheds and other auxiliary farm buildings were built in the farming part of the yard. Normally, stackyards had rammed earth floor and enclosed mows on both sides for the storage of grain and hay. Various cereal grain threshing and winnowing tools as well as agricultural implements were kept in the barn.

At the end of the 19^th century, substantial farmers started building long, two-end residential houses made of trimmed logs with a double-pitch roof of shingles or tiles. At the centre of the house there was a kitchen with a porch; at the one end there was a family room, whereas a guest room was located at the other end of the building.