Lindula and Hauenguan

History

In 1756, the Lindula property belonged to a townsman named Lindqvist and the Hauenkuono property to a person named Hartman. In 1800, Lindula was owned by the townsman and bourgeois Johan Henrik Åberg. He had more than two barrels of arable land, a meadow, a food shed, two beach fences and a loading dock. Hauenkuono was owned by the merchant Matti Grönström. He had four barrels of arable land, three and a half acres of meadow, a food shed, two reefs with sheds and barns. In addition, he had ship shares and a warehouse, but the tax assessment deducted the debts from them.

Fire insurance

The fire insurance was taken out in 1845 by a merchant widow, Catharina F. Ilwan. The main building opposite the Hauenkuono market place was old and in good condition. It was panelled in 1820 and oil painted. There were 11 rooms: two halls, two halls, six chambers with seven tiled stoves, and a kitchen with a stove and a baking oven. The building had a tiled roof. On the courtyard side there were two covered entrance porches with a corridor between them. There were 11 windows and they were four-paned. There was also one half window. There was one double-paned window in the attic. The hallway doors had two pairs of doors with a window above them. The exterior doors were double doors and simple board. There was also a double board door, and five full transom and seven half transom intermediate doors. Two attic staircases led from the closets. The fireplaces included one square brown-glazed stove, one similar column stove, one white-glazed stove that was round, one brown and two green round stoves. The kitchen stove had an oven. There were three chimneys.

The building on the corner of Kauppakatu and Kitukränn was old, boarded up on the Kuninkaankatu side, and painted with yellow water based paint. The roof was boarded. The building had a gateway, two hallways, a hall and four chambers with a total of five tiled stoves. The entrance staircase was covered, supported by columns from the ceiling. The entrance hall had a board closet. There were eight four-paned windows. The gates were of double plank. One of the doors in the entrance hall was a double door, the other a single board door. The intermediate doors were semi-transomed and had five panels. There was also one single board door. Two of the tiled stoves were green, square, one round brown, one brick. There were three chimneys.

The exterior building row was an angled building at the corner of Kuninkaankatu and Kitukränni. It was built of new materials in 1843. The building was not lined, but it was painted with red watercolour. There were 10 rooms: a baking room with an oven in the baking room, a sauna with an oven in the sauna, a coach house, three dormitories with attics, a wooden stove, a stable, a barn and a corridor. There were four windows in the building and six false windows with glass panes on the side facing King Street. The doors were single and double board doors, and there were also hatches. The gate to the plot was oil-painted green.

A stone building with a roof made of Dutch tiles on the side of the plot facing Kauppakatu was left uninsured.

Modification drafts

In 1896, the street facade and base of the stone building on the site were altered. The earlier layout is not shown on the drawing, but the roof elevation was replaced with a single entrance to a commercial building and a single display window. It is not known whether the strong mouldings and arches date from an earlier period, or whether they were added in the spirit of the Neo-Renaissance. In addition to the shop room, the roof of the building contained two other rooms and, on the courtyard side, a kitchen, an entrance hall and a pantry. At the same time it was announced that part of one row of buildings on Kuninkaankatu would be demolished.

The intention was also to transform the wooden building by making its facades neo-renaissance, its windows T-shaped or, in the narrowest of them, double-glazed. The building would also have been raised. The façades would have been lined with tripartite cladding. The attic section would have been divided into cassettes. The drawing would also have emphasised the pilaster bands on the walls. The lining of the windows would also have been rich. On the Hauenguono side of the market square there was an end triangle motif, with additional small lanterns on the roof. The small garden fence on the Hauenguono side of the square would also be in the neo-renaissance style, as would the high gate and its associated fence. The drawing does not reveal any changes inside the wooden building, but the whole building between Hauenguono Square and Kauppakatu and Kuninkaankatu would have been a single apartment. There would have been eight rooms and a kitchen, two hallways and two entrances, one to the kitchen and one to the living quarters. However, Hjalmar Ridderstad, the owner of the building at the time, did not carry out the alterations. Exceptionally, the alteration drawings are unsigned. They were in Swedish, which could refer to August Helenius or other designers from Turku. Onni von Zansen and Yrjö Blomstedt from Rauma could also be considered.

In 1902, Onni von Zansen drew an alteration drawing for the extension of the Kuninkaankatu side wing of the residential building. The part would include additional space for one chamber and a stone extension with a pent roof and an entrance from the street. The lining of the extension was neo-renaissance in style and continued the line previously planned for the rest of the building. The entrance section, on the other hand, was strongly Art Nouveau.

However, the idea of changing the facades was not completely forgotten. In 1924, major changes were made to the wooden buildings on the site. The plans were drawn up by M. Isaksson. His drawings were clearly inspired by ideas inherited from earlier designs. The building had been raised in the same way as had been intended the previous time. The façade of the Hauenguono square was given a triangular shape. Instead of the roof lanterns, a recurring theme was the window in the attic and a small ridge motif on the roof. The windows became T-shaped, but the lining was very simple and unpretentious, with narrow horizontal mouldings and the window frames were also unpretentious. The pilaster strips were not emphasised, but were simply implemented as corner boards and vertical columns dividing the façade here and there. The residential building had increased in length on the Kuninkaankatu side and the exterior row of buildings was correspondingly shortened. The gate became low. In 1926, similar changes were made to the two residential buildings on the side facing Kauppakatu. The two buildings became separate. The stunted side was still attached to the outbuilding, but on the roof side the continuous building line was cut off by demolishing one section. The building on the shopping street was similarly extended on the courtyard side with new kitchens and entrances. The façades of both buildings were changed to be similar to those of the other wooden buildings on the site. The modification plan was made by Kaino Kari.

In 1953, a roof entrance and display windows were opened in the wooden building to the west of the stone building. In 1956, a shop door and window were also opened in the outbuilding at the end of the shopping street opposite Kitukränn. The following year, the barn at the end of the outbuilding opposite Kuninkaankatu was converted into a garage. In 1958, the commercial premises of the stone building were converted. The entrance was moved to the arched opening where there had previously been a shop window and the former door and one ordinary T-shaped window were replaced by shop windows. All the space was converted to commercial use. The building housed a general store and a dairy shop. In 1959, part of the building opposite Kitukränn was demolished. The bakehouse and part of the sheds were replaced by a brick lorry shed. In the same year, a boiler room was built in the basement of the large wooden building and the furnaces in the apartments were demolished. Some of the stoves in the kitchen were left in place. The apartments were also fitted with toilets.

Current situation

Building on the Hauenkuono side
An elongated residential building, built in the 1700s, possibly in part as early as 1747. Present appearance 1924 (Maurus Isaksson).

Stone building along Kauppakatu
Plastered brick building dating from 1830, commercial building, arched windows on the façade made in 1896 (probably by Onni von Zansen), hipped roof, pitched roof.

Building on the side of the shopping street
Short-cornered residential building, partly commercial, 1930s horizontal planking, hipped roof, shop windows
Residential building along Kauppakatu and Kitukränn residential building, elongated corner, later horizontal brickwork, pitched roof

Building facing Kitukränn
Elongated residential and outbuilding, later vertical planking

The middle building of the row of buildings facing Kitukränn
Cement brick exterior building

Outbuilding on the side of the Kauppakatu
Long-cornered outbuilding from 1843, stucco cladding, false windows.