Ruandla

History

In 1756 the house belonged to the squire Stengrund. In 1800 the land was owned by the grocer Rehn. He had a barrel of meadowland and also hayland.

Fire insurance

Widow Augusta Hellsten took out an insurance policy on the house in 1878. The main building was on the narrow square and the second residential building, which was on Isokirkkokatu, formed a corner of the street. The building at the back of the courtyard formed a corner with the building on Koulukatu. The gateway was on the market square, or Kauppakatu. The main building was old, but in the summer of the same year it was thoroughly renovated, boarded up and painted with yellow oil paint. There were five rooms: two halls, two chambers, a hallway and a covered staircase. Three of the four tiled stoves were porcelain. All the rooms were fitted with new doors, windows, floors, ceilings and wallpaper in the summer. The roof of the building was covered with a roofing felt.

The second residential building also included outbuilding facilities. It was old and had also been thoroughly repaired in the summer, boarded up and painted with yellow oil paint. The building had a kitchen with a stove and a baking oven, a dining room, a hallway and a corridor. The doors, windows and floors had also been replaced and the building was covered with felt. Under this building is a vaulted stone cellar.

The building on the Koulukatu side was also a combined dwelling and outbuilding. It was old, partly boarded up and painted with red watercolour. The building had a pitched roof. The rooms were a hall with a tiled stove, a hall, a stable, a barn and two barns. The courtyard wing, which was built in with the building, was made of boards and painted red. It was new, built in the same year, and contained a woodshed and a latrine. The building had a pitched roof.

Modification drafts

In 1923, a bank house was built on the site. The building was designed by Kauno S. Kallio and represented twentieth-century classicism. The wooden building had a colonnaded entrance facing the square and tall small square windows. There was also an entrance in the middle of the other street façade, but this was not accentuated in the same way as the main entrance. The building had a vertical planked roof with a cornice and a gabled tiled roof.

An alteration drawing for the wooden building of the National Bank of Osaka on the site dates from 1934. In 1934, plans were made to connect the building to the water and sewerage network and toilets were added to the premises. A bathroom had already existed in the building’s dwelling. The heating stoves in the rooms were also dismantled but the kitchen stove remained in place.

The current bank building, built by Kansallis-Osake-Pankki, was designed in 1959 by architect Eero O. Kari. The street level contained the bank’s premises and the upper floor apartments. The representative manager’s apartment had a floor area of 163 m2 and consisted of a living room, dining room and hall, three bedrooms and kitchen, bathroom, separate toilet and cloakroom. In keeping with the custom of the time, one of the bedrooms was thought to be the assistant’s room. The other apartments were 54 m2 and 21 m2 apartments, both with two rooms and a kitchenette, and a 20 m2 studio apartment. The basement of the building was also used.

In 1984, the second floor apartments were converted into premises for the bank’s staff. The basement was converted into social rooms and a sauna. In 1998, the attic was taken into use. A sauna, utility rooms and a craft room were added. In 1992, the second floor was converted into a separate training room, which no longer serves only the bank.

Current situation

Building by the square
2-storey brick building, bank, designed by Eero O. Kari in 1959. Outbuilding Brick outbuilding.