Etu-Wälkklä

History

In 1756, the Aalper plot was owned by Ahlberg’s widow and the Berger plot by Juhana Berger. In 1800 the Aalper plot belonged to the poor organist Srömbeck and the Berger plot to the bailiff Emmanuel Söderman. He had more than two barrels of arable land, a meadow, a food shed, two reefs, a barn and a shore shed.

Change drawings

The 1902 amendment drawing by Arvi Forsman shows three buildings on the plot. One is a residential building on the eastern boundary of the plot, with its end facing Eteläpitkäkatu. The second building is small and is located on the western boundary of the plot as an extension of a row of buildings on the neighbouring plot. The third building is an outbuilding on the southern boundary of the site. The modification concerned a long residential building. The bakery at its end was replaced by a shop with a street door and a tripartite display window. The roof of the end wall was boarded up. A new baking oven was made in the next room, with a door from the courtyard. The next three rooms were living rooms, and the frame of the building was slightly wider at their points than in the baking room section. One chamber was part of the baking room and the other two had their own hallway and entrance at the south end of the building.

A new modification drawing by Arvi Forsman dates from 1903. Now the building was extended from the street side. The old small building on the street side was demolished or possibly converted into a room in the new part. In addition to the shop, an apartment with a room, kitchen and hallway was now added to the street side. A porch was built at the corner of the building on the courtyard side, with access to both apartments. From the bakehouse towards the courtyard, there were not three rooms according to this drawing, but two, of which the one next to the bakehouse was large and the separate chamber at the end was small. It had its own entrance and hallway, as in the previous plan. The gate to the plot was on the west side of the building. The building was clapboarded with three courses of Neo-Renaissance siding. The windows were T-pane. There were two standard T-shaped windows next to the shop door in this plan. The two old outbuildings on the south side of the lot were combined into a single row the length of the lot.

Perhaps the previous plan never got off the ground, or only the shop and bakery apartments were built. Today, the window of the old storefront is a tripartite window.

In 1923, the rear chamber of the courtyard wing was converted into a kitchen. In 1970 it became a sauna. The old shop became a two-part room, the baking oven was abandoned, and the porch was altered and enlarged. Toilet facilities were also added for two apartments.

Current situation

Residential building
Short-cornered residential building, current dwelling and neo-renaissance lining from 1903 (Arvi Forsman)

External building
Wooden outdoor building

Gate
New application of the slat gate