Rand-Uati

History

An annex to the 1756 map of the site shows Strandbeck as the owner of the land. According to the 1800 tax list, the owners were Captain Edv. Lorenz Willebrand and the former bourgeois Joh. Ståhle.

Fire insurance

The house was insured against fire in 1835, when the owner was the sailor G. Granlund. The main building on Anundilankatu was old and not in very good condition. It was boarded up and painted with red water based paint. The rooms consisted of a hall, three chambers, a baker’s room and a hall. The newer, more recently built dwelling was at the back of the courtyard, on the eastern side of the plot. It was unplanked and unpainted. It had a laundry room with a vaulted oven and stove and a hallway. On the eastern side of the plot there was also an old unplanked and unpainted shed with an attic. There was an old log outbuilding facing the Eteläpitkäkatu. It was unplanked and unpainted and in fair condition. There was a barn, a shed and a stable. There was also an old grey log shed facing Anundilankatu. A wooden shed in the corner between the laundry building and the outbuilding was not considered appropriate to insure.

Modification drafts

The oldest modification drawing for the plot dates back to 1892. It is by John Fredr. Lindegren. Before the alteration, the plot had been occupied by two residential buildings along Anundilankatu and part of Eteläpitkäkatu. Partly along the courtyard side of the plot was an outbuilding. Now it was planned to extend the residential building on the south side with a wing facing Eteläkatu. At the same time, part of the wing of the outbuilding along the same street was to be demolished. Similarly, the wing on the northern boundary of the outbuilding plot was extended. After the modification, the residential building had three rooms along Anundilankatu and a kitchen and a pantry in the new wing. On the courtyard side was a boarded porch with two entrances. The dwelling was low, but it was proposed to have three-storey neo-renaissance panelling. The low windows were drawn in two-paned. The south-facing side of the exterior building was proposed to be lined with the same rendering as the residential building. Two six-paned windows were drawn on the street façade, one of which was a false window, facing the latrine, while the other, facing the barn, was marked as a normal window.

The next modification drawing dates from 1898 and was made by Arvi Forsman. The central part of the outer row of the courtyard may have been used for living quarters in the past. Now it was intended to make new fireplaces, a baking oven placed at an angle to the room. In the adjacent room was a sauna oven. Next to the sauna was another living room with a conventional heating oven. The sauna section and the baking room section had separate entrances through the same porch. The porch was new. The building had a three-storey neo-renaissance lining. The windows were T-shaped. The following year, another building on Anundilankatu was altered. The designer was Arvi Forsman. Instead of two porches on the courtyard side, a veranda-shaped extension was proposed, almost the entire length of the building. The extension had three entrances, one of which formed a small kitchen. The same wall also contained a fireplace with a baking oven for the adjacent kitchen. Both kitchens were constructed of logs, but two of the entrances were constructed of plank. One of the living rooms was lit by a window opening onto the veranda. There were five rooms on the street side, a couple of which were very small. The façade was clad in three-tiered panelling. The windows were cross-paned and had Neo-Renaissance panelling. The porch had multi-pane windows. The exterior doors were double doors.

In 1926, a second kitchen was added to the building at the corner of Anundilankatu and Eteläkäpitkäkatu by changing the fireplace. The building was divided into two apartments. In 1932 it was decided to make an extension with a kitchen on the courtyard side. In October 1934, changes to the rooms were planned. There were also plans to dismantle the stoves and change the kitchen stove connection to central heating. In February 1935, plans were made to build a gazebo on the courtyard side of the north side of the building. At the same time, it was proposed to demolish a room at the end of the outbuilding to provide sufficient space for the vilpola. A garage should be added to the outbuilding. In April, a corridor and accommodation rooms were planned for the west side of the building, as well as a street door. The space became suitable for a mobile home. In 1942, part of the outbuilding on the northern boundary of the property and part of the outbuilding on the eastern boundary were demolished and a new stone outbuilding was built on the eastern boundary to house a latrine, a woodshed and storage space. All the plans were drawn up by Kaino Kari.

In 1962, a space was excavated under the corner building for a boiler room, an oil store, a wood store and a latrine. A utility cellar was also added next door. At the same time, the kitchen boiler and the entire stove were dismantled. The buildings had previously been extended on the courtyard side to provide a new kitchen and an entrance area. Now a bathroom was added to the larger dwelling. The windows in the building were changed from double-glazed to ventilated, shallow and period-standard windows. The cladding was a partitioned sheetrock. A concrete staircase with a metal handrail was added to the courtyard side.

In 1970, in the same building, the 64 m2 and 42 m2 apartments were combined to form a 102 m2 apartment with a sauna.

In 1879, the premises of the building on the north side were converted from a passenger house into a commercial building and an apartment. Two shop windows were added to the roof. The apartment in the courtyard building was also renovated to bring it up to date.

Current situation

Residential twin building
Short-cornered detached residential building, saddle roof

Residential building
An elongated residential building with a later southern wing. The profiled clapboard siding and horizontal moulding commemorate the 1899 neo-renaissance design (by John F. Lindegren). The windows were enlarged in 1962, with a saddle roof.

Courtyard building
Long-cornered dwelling and outbuilding, old panelling

Outbuilding
Brick outbuilding from 1942

Gate
The old gatehouse and gate follow the design of John F. Lindegren. A similar gate was also designed by Lindegren for a house on Itäkatu.