Naol

History

In 1756 it was owned by Packalin. In 1800 the plot belonged to the townsman and bourgeois Christian Paqvalen. He also owned more than 3 barrels of arable land, a meadow, three food barns, a reef, a barn, a waterfront barn and a loading dock, as well as ship shares.

Fire insurance

The fire insurance was taken out in 1853 by the captain’s widow, S. Liljenberg. There was an east-west oriented main building in the middle of the plot and a parallel residential building on the northern side of the plot. In the same row with it was a small outbuilding. The other two outbuildings were on the eastern boundary of the plot, further east than the present boundary. That is, in the area of the street and part of the area that today belongs to the neighbouring plot on the other side of Isomalminkatu. The narrow street made a rectangular turn at Naula. The gate was in its present position. The southern part of the courtyard was a garden and there was also a large area of land to the west of the buildings.

The main building was built in 1798. It had one storey and an attic chamber without a fireplace in the central part of the building. The building was boarded up in 1833 and painted red. The roof was made of boards. The rooms consisted of a lobby, a hall, three chambers and a kitchen. The building included a porch structure with a balcony. The porch was painted with oil paint. The porch also has a window and benches. The windows in the dwelling house were four-paned and there were 13 of them. There were five single-paned and two double-paned doors, which were semi-transparent. There were two closets in the hallway, one with stairs leading to the attic chamber and balcony. The stairs were panelled. Three of the rooms had paper wallpaper and skirting boards and one had fabric wallpaper. Two of the tiled stoves were round and two were flat, with brown glazing. There was also a kitchen stove with a baking oven. There was also a screen in the kitchen, made of fabric, to hide the stove from view. The baffle was painted and was 3 cubits high. There were two chimneys in the building.

The building on the northern boundary was old, in fair condition and painted red. The building had two hallways, a pantry, a sauna, a wood stove and two dining rooms with attics. The fireplaces included one brown-sided tiled stove and a sauna stove with a cooker. The building had three windows, one of which was slightly larger than the others. There was one semi-transomed French door, and one closet in the living quarters. There were four double board doors and the same number of single board doors. There were two chimneys. An extension of the building was an outbuilding, which was log, old and painted red. The rooms were a chalet and a food shed. The roof of all the buildings was tiled.

In addition, two gates were insured on the plot, which were located at right angles to each other along the street. The outbuildings in the eastern part of the plot, one of which was a log cart shed and the other a barn, were not insured.

When the insurance was renewed in 1858, the old outbuildings were all gone and a new outbuilding had been added to the barn.

Modification drafts

In 1911, changes were made to the residential building on the north side of the plot. Two separate apartments were added, some partitions were moved, and the fireplaces were changed. A new baking oven was added to the second apartment. New porches were built in front of both apartments.

In 1912, Arvi Leikari designed a new lining for the main building. As often happened, the implementation of the design deviated slightly from the plan. Other changes were made to the building. The present angular porches are the result of this modification. The building was divided into three rooms and a kitchen. The drawing shows that the original base of the narrow-bodied building was symmetrical, with a room in the centre, topped by an attic room, large halls on either side of it and a chamber at each end. The alteration retained the old appearance of the building, but a year earlier Leikari had drawn up an extension plan for the main building which would have substantially altered the proportions and appearance of the building. The exterior would have had an Art Nouveau look. The building next to the gate was altered to resemble the one shown in the same plan. The building was given new cladding, similar to the existing one, raised and more living space was added. The exterior of the building was retained. In 1929, a second-floor apartment was planned for the central part of the main building.

The exterior was destroyed by bombing during the Winter War. It was replaced in 1940 by a new limestone sandstone outbuilding with a latrine and wood shelters. In 1957, a sauna was added to the building.

In 1970, a toilet was installed in all three apartments in the main building.

In 1985, the gate was renovated and a fence and new driveway were built next to it. Toilet and shower facilities were added to the building on the northern part of the site. In 1989, all the rooms in the building on the northern boundary of the site were converted into living accommodation. In practice, the old outbuilding at the western end of the building was completely rebuilt. The eastern end of the building was converted into offices. In 1990, the remaining outbuildings were converted into living quarters and the main building was converted back into a single apartment. The sauna building had been converted to better suit the surroundings in 1994. Jukka Koivula designed the last changes in the 1980s and the 1990s.

Current situation

Residential building in the middle of the plot

Elongated residential building dating from 1798, neo-renaissance lining from the late 19th century, old attic chamber in the middle of the building, hipped roof. The present lining is in the spirit of the 1912 design (Arvi Leikari)

Residential building on the edge of the plot

Short-cornered building with both residential and outbuilding in the same row, neo-renaissance lining, built circa 1800. Now entirely residential. The present layout follows the spirit of the 1911 plan (Arvi Leikari).

Sauna building
A new building built on the site of an outbuilding destroyed during the Winter War. The building was restored to its present form in the 1990s (Jukka Koivula)

The gate
A gate supported by log posts, built in the 1600s and 1700s, probably the only surviving gate of this type in the country.