Parpa

History

In 1756 the land was owned by a person named Ahlqvist. In 1800 the owner was the bourgeois Johan Wilhelm. He also had a large area of barrels of arable land, but for tax purposes he was considered poor.

Fire insurance

The buildings on the site were insured against fire by the sailor Johan Wilhelm in 1850. There were three buildings on the plot: the main building along Pappilankatu and the outbuildings in the western part of the plot. The street-side building was built of logs in the old days and was in fair condition. However, it had been repaired in the same year and had received a new waterproof roof and planking. The rooms consisted of an entrance hall, a hall, three chambers and a room. The external staircase was covered. There were ten windows and six attic windows. Five of the doors were semi-transparent mirrored doors, the hallway door was a single plank double door. The attic stairs led from a closet with two board doors. There were also two smaller simple board doors. Five rooms had paper wallpaper and baseboards and ceiling tiles. The fireplaces consisted of a flat brown tiled stove and three similar round ones. There was also a dome oven and a brick tiled oven walled in to the side. The driveway was also insured. A log barn and a log cabin were left uninsured.

A new insurance policy was taken out in 1891, when the land was owned by the labourer J. F. Bahl. The dwelling was in fair condition, built in the old days, but the porch and kitchen had been built in 1854. The building was planked and painted with mixed paint and roofed with boards. The building now had five living rooms, a kitchen and hall, and a porch. The old parlour had been converted into a living room and other repairs had been carried out.

On the northern boundary of the property was a building in fair condition, built in 1853 and 1854, boarded up and painted in a mixing colour. The roof was made of boards. The building had one living room with a tiled stove and a room with a double bed. The double room had a tuvan wall with a fireplace and a baking oven. The building also had a stable and a barn. In the last year, a latrine and a paddock had been built on the side of the building, together with a small wooden shed made of board.

The outbuilding on the western boundary of the property was partly log, partly plank, and was in fair condition. The log part was old. The plank part was built in 1854. The building was painted with mixed paint. The roof was boarded. The outbuilding had four rooms. The side of the building had a board-and-batten wood shed built in 1890. There was also another log outbuilding on the property. It was old, boarded up and painted with mixed paint. The roof was boarded. The building had a dormitory. Under the building was a vaulted stone cellar. A driveway and a smaller access gate were also mentioned.

Modification drafts

The oldest modification drawing of the Parpa property dates back to 1899 and was drawn by Arvi Forsman. This was a modification of the façade of the residential building and the fireplaces of the bakery and the outbuilding. The residential building along Pappilankatu was given a three-part neo-renaissance lining. The framing of the T-shaped windows was quite simple. A high gateway matches the building’s façade. The baker’s building on the northern boundary of the site consisted of two rooms, a dovecote and a chamber. When the fireplaces were replaced, the chamber was enlarged and the baking room became slightly smaller than before. The long side of the building had a porch that was the height of the building. The attic portion of the porch had a decorative window, as well as diagonal windows above and on either side of the front door. One of the outbuildings also had diagonal windows. There were a total of three outbuildings on the site, one of which had apparently previously been built together with the baker’s building, but was now to be separated.

In 1902, changes are made to the residential building on the street. The drawing shows that the building had a narrower section, which before the alterations had a large room with an entrance hall and hall closet on one side and a smaller, separate room with its own entrance and boarded porch on the other side. On the other side of the hallway was a larger room with a greater depth of frame and an end chamber, which also had its own entrance and porch. In the middle of the building, on the courtyard side, was a porch and adjoining small kitchen. The kitchen was now to be extended and entrances made on both sides. The old entrance hall was connected to the entrance hall. The following year, Arvi Forsman again drew up a plan to alter the building. Now the kitchen section was to be extended and the space divided into two kitchens. A new porch was built between the porch at the north end of the building and the extended kitchen.

In 1934, a shop entrance was built in the south end room of a residential building along the street. In 1964, it was closed and a window was again made in the place of the dwelling. The room became a separate apartment with modern kitchen equipment. The porch was extended to provide a toilet compartment. The two other flats in the street-side building were also fitted with toilets, one in a corner of the room and the other on a thermally insulated porch. The apartment in the former bakery building also had a toilet on the porch.

Current situation

Street-side residential building
Long-cornered residential building, thoroughly renovated in 1850, neo-renaissance lining 1899 (Arvi Forsman), saddle roof

Residential building in the courtyard
Short-cornered residential building, neo-renaissance lining, gabled roof, 1899 exterior (Arvi Forsman)

Barn
Long-cornered outbuilding, with a gable lining

Outbuilding
Long cornered outbuilding.