Päewäne

History

The plot belonged in 1800 to the shoemaker Garbr. Rajaliin. He also had some arable land.

Fire insurance

The fire insurance was taken out in 1847 by Michael Nordlund, a master furrier. There were five buildings on the site. The main building on Vanhankirkonkatu was an old log building in good condition, boarded up and painted with light oil paint. There were seven six-square windows and five attic windows. The entrance was covered. The house had five rooms: a lobby, two halls and two chambers. There were four tiled stoves. Four semi-transparent mirrored doors served as intermediate doors. The four rooms had paper wallpaper and the baseboards and ceiling tiles were painted with oil paint. Two of the tiled ovens were brown-tiled and two were brick. In a separate building attached to the west of the dwelling was a kitchen with not only a stove but also a baking oven. The building was erected in 1845. It was unplanked, but painted with water paint. There was one four-paned window. The workshop building, erected in 1842, was located on the eastern boundary of the plot. It was a red, unplanked log building with two workshop rooms, a pantry, a skinning room and a chalk room. There were two tiled stoves and one hooded stove with a large copper masonry pot. There was one iron-barred window and three ordinary windows. On the western boundary was an old outbuilding made of logs, comprising a stable, a barn and a dormitory. The garage, made of old logs in 1842, was built alongside it. The building was painted in red water based paint. The driveway of the plot was also insured.

In 1898, the house was reinsured. The owner of the house was the miller K. Fr. Sjöblom, also a tanner. The buildings had been repaired. The main building was covered with an asphalt roof, among other repairs. A separate kitchen wing was now part of the main building. The workshop building had been converted into a residential building. It had been repaired in the year of the fire insurance, boarded up but not yet painted. The building had been given an asphalt shingle roof. There were five living rooms and an open shed. The house had five tiled stoves, three of which were described as having ‘a small stove in a clay oven surrounded by iron cladding’. It is possible that this was a hearth similar to that which survives at Kirsti. The old log outbuilding was in fair condition. It was planked but unpainted and still had a tiled roof. The building contained a stable, a barn and a dormitory. The car park had been demolished.

Modification drafts

An alteration drawing by Onni von Zansen, dated 1897, concerns the building on the eastern boundary of the plot, on the side of the courtyard, the former carvar’s tavern building. Four heated rooms were created by adding partitions and fireplaces, each with its own entrance from the two hallways of the building. The building is drawn as a six-sided building with horizontal brickwork and six-sided windows. The building was probably intended to be used as housing for the workers of the tannery. An alteration drawing by Arvi Forsman from 1899 survives. The residential building on Vanhankirkonkatu was modified with fireplace modifications: the chimneys were moved to the gable end of the building. The building was a semi-detached house at its base. The small hallway was to be converted into a kitchen. In addition to the large rooms at one end, there was a main chamber at the other end. The baker’s pantry was located at right angles to the courtyard. The Neo-Renaissance façade of the building is also shown on this drawing, as is the gateway. The small building along Vanhankirkonkatu is shown to be lined in the same spirit as the main building. The outbuilding was enlarged to provide space for seven animals in two compartments, plus storage and toilets.

In 1916, they wanted to make an entrance and display windows for the shop in the small building at the gate. In 1936, water and sewerage were brought into the kitchens. A bread oven was replaced by a standard kitchen stove.

In 1950, the rooms of the residential building on the eastern boundary of the site were combined into a single dwelling with a kitchen, bedroom, living room, hall and toilet. Wood-burning heating was retained. In 1978, the small apartments of the building on the Vanhankirkonkatu side were combined into one apartment of just over 100 square metres. A sauna was also added to the building. In 1996 the building was again planned to be altered. The location of the toilet was changed, the sauna rooms were modified and the kitchen was modernised.

Current situation

Residential building
An elongated residential building from the early 19th or 1700s, with ribbed horizontal timbering. West wing built 1845, gabled roof. Neo-Renaissance renovation 1899 (Arvi Forsman).

Residential building in the courtyard
Residential building built in 1842, originally a carving shed, with horizontal boarding.

Outbuilding
Exterior building of board, built in the early 19th century

Gate
Newly built enclosed gateway with lintel.