Klööwi

History

The land was owned in 1756 by a person named Ahlström. In 1800, half of the plot belonged to Gustaf Ilvan, an assistant to the vicar, who also had a shed on the beach. The other half belonged to shoemaker Johan Harolini and bourgeois widower Gustava Ahlström.

Fire insurance

The fire insurance was taken out in 1861 by the merchant-broker Th. Forström. The main building on Kuninkaankatu was old and in good condition. It was planked and painted with red watercolour. The windows were six-paned and there were eleven of them, and six in the attic. There were three chimneys. There was a porch in front of the entrance. The building had two halls, four chambers, a kitchen and a hallway. There were five tiled stoves, three of which were square with brown glazing and two were round. The kitchen had one. Eight of the intermediate doors were semi-transparent mirrored doors. In the hallway was a closet from which the attic stairs led.

At the back of the courtyard was a bakehouse and outbuilding. It was recently built, unplanked and unpainted. There were two windows. The building contained a baking room, a pantry, a hall and a barn. In addition to the baking oven, the building had a brown-sided tiled oven.

The second outbuilding was located along Pappilankatu. It was also reported as recently built, unplanked, but painted in red paint. The building had two dormitories, a coach house and a woodshed. A fence, gate and well-trap structure surrounding the site were also insured.

Modification drafts

The oldest alteration drawing of the Klööwi property dates back to 1893. It was for a residential building along Kuninkaankatu. In place of the one-chamber stove on the courtyard side, a kitchen stove was to be built. The building had an entrance in the middle with a porch in front of it. On either side of the entrance hall were rooms the width of the building’s body, with a small kitchen in between, in addition to the entrance hall. At either end of the building were two chambers, one at the street side and the other at the courtyard side.

In 1914, a plan by Jalmari Karhula was drawn up to extend the Kuninkaankatu side of the building on the Pappilankatu side. An extension was also added to the outbuilding on Pappilankatu. The baker’s building on the western boundary of the site was left as it was and only a new fireplace was added. The buildings were given a new Art Nouveau appearance and new windows divided into nine or fifteen squares. A shop window and shop entrance were also added on the Kuninkaankatu side. The new wing on the Pappilankatu side was taller than the old building, and its high end extended to the Kuninkaankatu side, with a partly gabled roof and decorated eaves and three square windows on the second floor. The exterior of the building on Pappilankatu was also given an Art Nouveau lining. A fence and a gate in the style were added between the buildings.

The Peltola bakery and confectionery building underwent several changes.

In 1922, a small kiosk was to be opened on the fence facing Pappilankatu. In 1945, a door was opened to the shop from Pappilankatu and a large single display window was made on the Kuninkaankatu side to replace the old nine-screen window. The café occupied the entire section of Kauppakatu, but a couple of rooms on the west end remained separate. In 1949, the café and shop premises were to be renovated and large shop windows were added to the roof side. In 1960, the bakery space became more unified and larger than before. The bakery and the coffee bar were separated by a wall, although both were accessed through a common entrance from Kuninkaankatu. Two rooms were connected to the coffee bar by demolishing walls. Toilet facilities and a kitchen were also added to the bar on the courtyard side. In addition to the food storage cellar and the bakery cellar, a boiler room was added to the basement. The roof of the building already had display windows, but now the last nine-square window on the Kuninkaankatu side was converted into a large display window, and the lower two-square, eight-square window on the upper part of the bakery shop was converted into a single large window. The small-screened windows on the attic floor also became single-screened.

In 1964, changes were made to the bakery section. The electric oven of the previous phase was replaced by an oven with an oil burner. The windows on the courtyard side were changed to standard windows with a narrow ventilation window.

Current situation

Street-side building
A short-cornered residential building, long used as a confectionery, and the east wing built in the 1910s, when the building also received its Art Nouveau appearance (Jalmari Karhula), with a saddle roof. The large, divided windows on the roof side, as well as on the courtyard side, date from the 1960s.

Outdoor building
New building.