Niiwo

History

In 1756, the Niivo plot belonged to Sacklin and the adjacent Lukkari plot to Berggrén. In 1800, plot 40 or Niivo belonged to the bourgeois Erik Nyblom, and plot 41 or Vähä-Niivo belonged to the tanner Hinr. Westlin. Plot 42, Lukkari, belonged to the former carpenter Markku Dahlberg. Nyholm had two barrels of arable land and half of a reef and barn. The others also had some arable land and Dahlberg also had a meadow. Nyholm was considered poor.

Fire insurance

The year of fire insurance is 1853. The owner was the merchant I. W. Lindegren. There were four buildings on the plot: the main building on Kuninkaankatu, the wing on the Itäkatu side and a second, wider building, and the angular outbuilding on the western and northern sides of the plot.

The main building was built in 1852 from new logs. The building was unpainted and unplanked. There were 11 rooms: a dormitory, two parlours, a förmaaki and seven chambers. The roof was of Holstein tile with a double-pitched tiled roof with a ash interlayer. The stonework on the Kuninkaankatu side and part of the east side is made of hewn stone, while the stonework on the other sides is made of wedged or blasted stone. As regards the floor construction, it is written that the infill/rope floor was made of board and plastered with lime mortar. Near the walls there is a brick layer around the building, followed by a fill and tufa and a floor of fir boards. The intermediate roof was made of pontoon board and fixed under the joists. The board was topped with infill and tuff and finally the floor. There were 23 windows of spruce frames and two half windows. There were 13 attic windows. There were 10 full transom double doors and six full transom single doors. There was a closet in the hallway with attic stairs. There were two half-transom doors to the closet. There were two closets in the attic with interior trim and doors. There were three double board doors in the stone floor. There was a hatch to the attic that was double board. The porch was pontoon board and had a roof of Holstein roof tiles, four window sashes with diagonal windows. There was also a similar window above the door. The exterior doors were full French double doors. There was also another smaller similar porch. Above the windows and doors were 29 ornamental top boards, which were oil painted. The rooms had skirting boards and some rooms had more elaborate, others simpler ceiling tiles. Two of the stoves were white and flat, six were round and white glazed, two were flat and two were round and brown glazed. There were two chimneys, and the flues of twelve stoves were led into them.

The building on the Itäkatu side, attached to the main building, was built in 1832. It was in good condition, unplanked and painted with red paint. There were four rooms: a pantry, a laundry room, a bread room and a cold room. The roof was made of tiles. There was a cellar under the building. There were eight windows and six in the attic. There were two tiled stoves, an oven in the baking room with a cast-iron stove and a bread oven. There was also an oven in the laundry room. The external doors were semi-transparent and there were four of them. The entrance hall door was a simple board door with a window above it.

The third building in the Itäkatu row was a dormitory, dating from 1829. It was unplanked and unpainted. The building had two dormitories with grain bins. The building had six attic windows and two double-paned board doors, which were of two sections.

The angled building on the west and north sides of the property was an outbuilding dating from 1846. It was made of new materials. The building contained a stable, a barn and a feed store. The building was unplanked and unpainted. In addition, a gate was insured, which was located along Kuninkaankatu. It was mirrored and had a decorative upper structure and a smaller gate for pedestrians on the side. The gate was painted with oil paint. The fence was also insured.

In 1866, the policy was renewed by the merchant’s widow, A. R. Lindegren. Plot 43 had been annexed to the property, on the north side of the previously combined plots 40 and 42. The main building was now reveted with brick and plastered. The roof was still brick. The wing building on the east side was now boarded up and painted with oil paint. The building contained a pantry, a laundry room, a bread room, a canteen and a cellar under the building. The fireplaces had a tiled stove and two hearths, one of which had a masonry iron stove and a baking oven and a bread oven. The makeshop building, an extension of this building, was also boarded up and painted with oil paint. In addition, it was now reported that there were two vaulted brick cellars under the building, which had not been reported on the previous occasion.

The old angular outbuilding had been replaced by a new one. It was longer than before and also overlooked the new combined plot. The building had been erected in 1862 and was unlined but painted in red brick. The building contained a stable with a hayloft, a barn with a hayloft, a latrine, a dung-house, a coach-house and a dormitory with an attic.

On the attached plot, along Itäkatu, there is a residential building made of new timber in 1864. The building was unplanked and painted in red earth. It had a boarded roof and a vaulted cellar underneath. The building had eight rooms: two halls, a baker’s room, a laundry room and four chambers. There were two gates to the property, one of which was previously insured, the other gate was on Itäkatu. The fences on the property were also insured. In addition, an oil-painted fence surrounding the garden on the new part of the plot was insured.

Modification drafts

An alteration drawing by Arvi Forsman, concerning the wooden buildings on the Itäkatu side of the plot, dates from 1898. The southernmost of the buildings comprises a wider section with a kitchen and four rooms. The narrower part was a semi-detached section with two large rooms, a small pantry and a small kitchen. A baker’s room with its own entrance was also attached to this part of the building. In front of the two apartments was a small porch. The detached building further north is wide in plan. It consisted of two apartments, one with a hall, kitchen and three rooms and the other with three rooms, a hall and a kitchen with a large oven. The wooden buildings were clad in three-tiered panelling in the neo-renaissance style. The list above the windows ended with a lily motif.

In 1899, Onni von Zansen drew up an alteration drawing for the plastered residential building on Kuninkaankatu and the wooden building on the Itäkatu side, which was built together with it. It shows the rooms of the plastered building. In the middle of the wide building was a large hall. Opposite it, on the courtyard side, were the kitchen and a pantry. To the west of the hall were four rooms and a hallway. The smallest of the rooms was the kitchen. To the east of the hall were four rooms, three of which were chambers. One room was divided by light partitions into three parts: one was a vestibule with stairs rising from the street door, and the other two were hallways with tiled stoves. The division of the rooms is not clear, as all the rooms were connected to each other by intermediate doors and to the nearest rooms in the Itäkatu wing. There were two porches on the courtyard side. The classical appearance of the building on Kuninkaankatu remained unchanged, only the roof entrance was replaced.

In 1905, a small brick washroom was added to the side of the north dwelling.

In 1926, alterations were made to the outbuilding on the western boundary of the property. The north end of the building contained a latrine and a multi-compartment latrine. The southern part of these was converted into a single workshop with workstations for turning, planing, vulcanising, etc. A small stone washhouse with a hipped roof was built on the northern boundary of the site, next to the dwelling.

In 1945, a boiler room was built in the workshop building. In 1961, a hall boiler was built in the kitchen of one of the buildings on the east side, and a toilet and bathroom in the hallway. The heating furnaces were demolished.

In the 1970s and 1980s, both the workshop building and the residential buildings were renovated and modernised.

Current situation

Residential building along Kuninkaankatu
Short-cornered residential building, brick walls and plastered, built in 1852, revetment before 1866, hipped roof
Alteration drawings of the buildings on the site from 1898 and 1899 ( 0nni von Zansen )

Residential building facing east
Short-cornered residential building dating from 1832 and 1849, neo-renaissance lining, hipped roof

The more northerly residential building along Itäkatu
Short-cornered residential building of 1864, neo-renaissance lining, hipped roof

Building row in the courtyard
Short-cornered workshop building 1863, later southern part

Northern outbuilding
Stone outbuilding

Carport and workshop building
New building

Gate
On the east side of the street, an old-style gate.