Rasi

History

The house was owned in 1800 by the bourgeois son Gabr. Granlund. He also owned a small field, a granary and a barn.

Modification drafts

The oldest modification drawing dates back to 1895. The owner of the house, sea captain John Laurén, applies for permission to open a double door to one of the rooms in the building. The intention is to use the room as a grocery store. The new door will be a mirrored door with glass top panels. Above the door is a window with the shop owner’s name on it. The drawing shows that the building is planked with smooth vertical boarding and the six-paned windows are framed with Custavian moulding. Near one end is a pass-through doorway and sloping boarded overhead doors. There is an 1896 alteration drawing for a paired baker’s building in the courtyard. The bake house already has a smoking oven next to the baking oven. Now a new smoking oven was built in the second room. Between the rooms there is a small chamber with a tiled oven, which is used for storing food. The renovations followed one after the other. From 1897 there is a modification drafts by John Fredr. Lindegren. The layout plan shows that in addition to the residential and shop building on the street side and the sausage factory in the courtyard, there was an outbuilding on the site. The street-side building was undergoing a renovation and had been shortened to make the gateway separate. Perhaps because of the sausage-making process, the yard needed to be accessed by a larger vehicle than would have been possible through the gateway. The gate was also made to match the style of the façade. One more room was added to the sausage factory building. A masonry cauldron was also added. The sausage-making building is vertically planked, with six-paned windows and two double doors. The County Architect Rancken has also requested a floor plan of the curbside building for further study. It shows that the building is a semi-detached building with a storefront end chamber at one end. The kitchen is in a small room at the back of the hallway. The ovens in all the chambers are in the corners of the rooms. There was also a porch attached to the building, from which the attic stairs led off.

In 1912, changes were made to the sausage factory building. The smoking oven was replaced and its location changed. A meat smoking oven, a sausage smoking oven and a masonry pot were placed in the same wall. The usual baking oven was no longer used. A larger room was reserved for the salted meat storage. One of the former smoking rooms was converted into a blacksmith’s workshop, where an oven was installed. A new latrine was built on the side of the outbuilding, which consisted of four rooms in a row and a loo extending over two rooms. In 1916, plans were again underway to make changes to the sausage-making building. The house was now owned by sea captain Pauli Jansson. The drawing was made by the author of the previous drawings, Arvi Leikari. Apparently the previous modification had not been carried out. In any case, the smoking oven was being replaced, but the sausage-making facilities were not being enlarged, but on the contrary, were being reduced. Both smoking ovens will be located in the same wall, as was the intention before. The smoking oven at one end of the building was demolished and replaced by a bread oven and stove. The oven had apparently not been built. One room in the building was set aside as a separate living room and fitted with a stove and a hallway into the room.

Sausage-making continued in the house. In 1923, a sausage factory section was built in stone according to plans by H. Sillanpää. Under the building were basements, on the first floor the actual factory rooms and on the attic floor storage rooms. In 1931, Frans Granroos, a sausage maker, wanted to increase the living space by building a new brick section between the factory building and the residential building, adding a children’s room upstairs and a room and alcove downstairs. The room was connected to the dining room in the wooden part. Next to it on the street side was another small chamber, called the living room. Next to this was a gentleman’s room with access to the circulation through a small hallway. The kitchen was on the side of the courtyard, and the shop and kitchen were accessed through the same entrance. There was also a second entrance to the apartment. Under the new part of the house was a cellar. The well of the house was left in the basement. The façade drawing shows an Art Nouveau window and a similar one-piece door in the commercial room. The dining room, which had lost its second window due to the remodeling, now has a wider window in the street façade. In 1931, a joint surface and ground water drain was built between the site and the neighbouring site on the other side of Vanhankirkonkatu, which led the water along Vanhankirkonkatu to the canal. In 1948, the next alterations requiring planning permission were made to the sausage factory. The building was widened with a staircase section. The outer building was to be shortened.

Current situation

Residential building
Long-cornered residential building, neo-renaissance construction 1897 (John F. Lindegren), ribbed horizontal planking on the courtyard facade, display window 1918, saddle roof

Exterior
Two-storey cement brick building originally built to serve the needs of a sausage factory. In 1923 (H. Sillanpää).

Outbuilding
External building made of board

Gate
Reconstructed to John F. Lindegren’s design.