Kiwelä

History

Kivelä (206) belonged in 1800 to the shoemaker Gabriel Poselli, who had a barn and half a boat house. He was poor. Plot 207, then called Ranta, was owned by Anna Lager, a dowager patron. She too was poor. In addition to the property, she had a food shed.

Fire insurance

The fire insurance was taken out in 1877 by the sailor Samuel Grönroos. There was a gabled residential building on the plot, with one wing facing Anundilan Street and the other on the northern boundary of the plot. On the southern boundary of the plot were two outbuildings, which were attached to each other at right angles. At that time, the plot did not border a square as it does now, but there was still a building on the southern side of plot 206. The building along the street had recently been erected. It was boarded up and painted red. The roof was of wattle and daub. The building had a hall, a pantry and a baker’s room, and two covered board stairs. There were five tiled ovens and a stove with a baking oven.

The outbuilding on the southern boundary of the property was of log, old and in fair condition. It was grey with a pitched roof. The building contained a barn, a shed, a chalet, a latrine and a vaulted cellar under the shed. The shed, which was built in one piece with the outbuilding, was of board and batten construction.

Modification drafts

From 1891, John Fredr. Lindegren. There is a residential building on the plot facing Anundilan Street, with one wing on the northern boundary. The outbuilding is on the eastern and southern boundaries of the plot. The residential building has four living rooms along the street and a baking oven room and one living room in the courtyard wing. The building has two porches, and one of the rooms is a separate apartment. The outbuilding has a barn, latrine, stable, shed and log sheds. A neo-renaissance design has been proposed for the street façade. The façade cladding is in three parts. Windows are double-hung and shallow. They appear to have been replaced by an old four- or six-paned window. The window frames have decorative mouldings. The courtyard side has vertical boarding and six-paned, classically framed windows that are taller than the roof windows. In 1906, the intention was to add a small entrance section with a pulpit roof to the side of the building.

In 1915, a two-storey stone residential and commercial building was planned for the site. However, Arvi Leikari’s plan was never realised. Later, a cinema, residential and commercial building designed by architect Väinö Vähäkallio in 1926 was erected on the site. The stone building, partly three storeys high, represents twentieth-century classicism. In 1939, a new residential floor, designed by Kaino Kari, was built on top of the cinema section. The building’s basement had already been used in 1927, when a kitchen was added. An apartment was built in the attic in 1930.

Plans to renovate the building and put the cinema to another use have been underway since 1990. Options have included a shop, a restaurant and a disco. Work began in 1999. The cinema hall was divided into two floors, the lower of which was used for retail space. New windows were opened on both floors. The plans were drawn up by Markus Bernoulli.

Current situation

Stone building
Cinema building, designed in 1926 by Väinö Vähäkallio. The part on top of the theatre hall was raised in 1939 (Kaino Kari).