This house named Mikligarður, often called Russia, was
built in 1931 by a man called Sigurgeir Daníelsson. The carpenter Steindór was the architect.The house has always been called Russia and the reason is believed to be that one of the carpenters, Pétur Laxdal,was the first sosialist in Iceland to be elected into a town council and also it refers to the size of the house. Houses that were built in 1931 usually were not that big.
In this house used to be at least 6 apartments. A portret studio was on the ground floor once and in the beginning there was a cowshed there as well.
Over the years the house became shabby and when Tómas and Selma (the hotel manager) moved to Sauðárkrókur in 1996 the house was empty, practicly ruins and was used by the fire squad to practice.
Some years later Ingólfur Guðmundsson and Björg Ágústsdóttir bought the house and began to rebuild it.
In the year 2003 Ingvi Þór Sigfússon and Arnrún Antonsdóttir bought it and turned it into a guesthouse.
In february 2007 we bought the guesthouse from them and have been running it ever since.
