Kleemola

History

In 1756 the house was owned by a person named Kieldberg and in 1800 by the patron Thom. Rundberg. He had a field and meadow outside the property and a food shed.

Fire insurance

The Kleemola house was insured against fire by the sailor S. Lindgren in 1863. There were three buildings on the plot. The main building was located on the Eteläpitkäkatu and was built in 1862. It was unplanked and unpainted. The rooms consisted of two halls, a chamber and an entrance hall. There were three tiled stoves. The second building on the west side of the plot was a residential and outbuilding. It was recently built, unplanked and unpainted. The building contained a baker’s pantry, a barn, a shed and a lobby. There was also an old grey log outbuilding on the north side of the plot.

A new fire insurance policy was taken out for the house in 1892, when the owner was the sailor Johan Leander. The main building was then boarded up and painted with oil paint. A porch was built on the courtyard side and the rooms were papered and painted. The building still had a double pitched roof. The dwelling and outbuilding on the west side of the property were reportedly built partly between 1853 and 1860, and partly in 1866. The building had been raised in 1890 and at the same time was partly boarded up, painted with oil paint and covered with an asphalt roof. The rooms now comprised a kitchen with a baking oven, a pantry, a hall, a shed and a barn. A small privy was attached to the side of the building and a modest boarded shed at the south end. The old shed was also boarded up and painted with watercolour.

In January 1906, a fire damaged the house owned by the farmer Malakias Laukola. The windows of the room at the eastern end of the main building were broken, the floor and the ceiling were damaged and the wall and roof papers were completely ruined. The fire was caused by children who were alone in the house and had handled the fire carelessly. The neighbours had managed to extinguish the fire and fortunately the damage was relatively minor.

Modification drafts

There is an alteration drawing from 1893, which shows the buildings on the plot at that time. There was a residential building along the street, another building with living quarters and outbuildings on the side of the courtyard on the western boundary, and a dormitory building at the rear of the courtyard on the northern boundary. A small shed with a pent roof was to be built on the side of both the residential building on the courtyard side and the macasin. The dwelling was designed with vertical boarding and six-paned windows. The dormitory is also vertically planked. The façade alteration drawing was made by Arvi Forsman in 1900. A door was opened in the middle of the building on the side facing Eteläpitkäkatu. There are two windows, both T-shaped. Their framing is quite simple. The building also has a three-part lining.

There are two modification drawings of the building from 1906. Immediately after the fire, one alteration drawing was drawn up, and another in the summer. Both drawings were made by Arvi Forsman. The difference was the placement of one of the fireplaces. According to the first plan, three chimneys would have been needed, but by moving the fireplace, the chimneys of two stoves had been placed in the same chimney, and a new stove had had to be built in the kitchen, where one already existed. Not content with simply repairing the fire damage, the conversion involved adding a new kitchen and entrance to the east end of the building, on the courtyard side, and dividing the building into two flats. Both had a room and a kitchen, the larger one a hallway. The larger apartment also had a porch. Previously there had been one apartment in the semi-detached building. The west-facing room had two windows instead of one on the street façade.

In 1980, the premises of the building along the street were joined into a single apartment, with modern kitchen and washroom facilities.

In 1990, the residential and outbuilding on the courtyard side was renovated. The outbuilding also became a warm room. All the spaces in the building became office space, connected by a corridor to the office space in the courtyard building on the neighbouring property, Nalli. A new open porch changed the appearance of the building. Markus Bernoulli designed the plans.

Current situation

Street-side residential building
Long-cornered residential building from 1862, neo-renaissance renovation in 1901 and 1906 (Arvi Forsman), saddle roof

Courtyard building
Clapboarded dwelling and outbuilding, built in the mid-19th century

Outdoor building
An old outbuilding made of board and log