Today, Laugaliai is a part of the township of Gargždai. However, before World War II, the place marked the edge of the village of Laugaliai and the state border. The well-preserved complex bears witness to the former German customs house with a detention cell, the last stop of the Dovilai-Laugaliai narrow gauge railway section, the guesthouse and shop, the old stone-paved road and the trees that marked its boundaries, the railway embankment and the end of the Žemaičiai highway tract built in the interwar period. After World War II, a secondary school was established in the main building. Prominent people from the Gargždai and Klaipėda districts used to study there, among whom were Aldona Trėja, the founder of the Riga Lithuanians community and the chairperson of the Lithuanian community in Latvia, and Eduardas Vilkas, an academician. In the 1960s, after the construction of the new school building (now known as the Minija Progymnasium), the structure served as a student dormitory for a while. After reconstruction, as of 1 September 1967, the building became the House of Young Pioneers of the Klaipėda district, and as of 1 September 1990, it acquired the name of the House of School Students of Klaipėda district. Since 1 September 2008, the Gargždai Children and Youth Leisure Centre has operated in the building.

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