Rääpi

History

In 1756, the Rääpi plot belonged to the Linden family. In addition, there was the plot of Vähä-Rääpi, which belonged to Fonden, and the plot of Iso-Rääpi, which belonged to Walstenius. In 1800, plot 29 went by the name of Iso- Rääpi, and there was also the property of Vähä-Rääpi. Plot 29 was owned by the bourgeois Johan Grönström. He had some arable land and also a share in a ship. The house was also occupied by Hannu Sarlund, a poor patron of the army.

According to the deeds of the present owner, the following owners were Johan Zwanberg (1804), Johan Simell (1826), Gustaf Rosvall (1858), Frans and Vilhelmiina Ström (1920), Fanny and Emil Elonen (1926) and, since 1944, Saga and Heikki Vahanen.

Modification drafts

The alteration drawing of the plot, drawn by M. Isakson, dates from 1920. The plot contained a residential building with a section parallel to Isopoikkikatu and a wing following the northern boundary of the plot. On the eastern boundary was an outbuilding. Now the eastern part of the building was to be slightly shortened, but also extended with a porch, and the fireplaces of the rooms and some of the partitions were to be changed. The streetside section was originally a central hall. There had been a kitchen on one side of the hall and two small chambers on the other. It was now desired to divide the kitchen into a hall and a chamber, and to move the partition wall of one end of the chamber to leave a single chamber and a room space from which the attic stairs rose. The new kitchen in the dwelling was in the courtyard wing. The room next to the kitchen had been the baking room, but it was converted into a room. The wall of the next chamber was moved and the last part became a kitchen with a baking oven. The previous room had had a small oven of the same size. The two rooms and the kitchen now formed a separate apartment. A two-compartment latrine was built to the side of the three-room outbuilding. The conversion also gave the dwelling a new appearance. The narrow horizontal planking, T-pane windows and extremely simple window panelling were in keeping with twentieth-century aspirations.

In 1924, changes were made to the fireplaces and two new porches were built. The plan was to create a room in the attic of the courtyard to house an iron fireplace, but the plan was not realised.

In 1951, a space for a fabric store was added to the street-side building. The fabric shop was given the space of the chamber nearest the gate. In addition to the door, a large, single-screen display window was added to the street frontage.

In 1975, one of the shop windows was removed from the plans and a 135 m2 apartment with five rooms, a sauna and two toilets was added.

Current situation

Residential building
L-shaped residential building, horizontal roof slab dating from 1920 and display windows from 1951, saddle roof

Outbuilding
The L-shaped, vertical-panelled outbuilding was demolished between 2004 and 2006.