Sauko

History

In 1800 there were two owners, the former bourgeois And. Antin and the chaplain’s widow Eeva Arolin. Antin had a field, a meadow, a dining hall, a waterfront barn and a potting shed.

Fire insurance

The fire insurance for the western half of the plot was taken out in 1848 by the master lapidary Johan Fredrik Heliander. The main building was located along Kauppakatu. It was a log building from 1846. The building was not planked, but it was painted with red watercolour. The windows were hexagonal, and there were six of them. There were five windows in the attic. The outer door was a double board door. The building had wooden gutters. The building also had a boarded porch. The building contained a hall, two chambers and a kitchen. There were four semi-transomed and one single board door. There was a building on the parsonage road, built in 1847. The building was unlined and painted with watercolour. This building had a baker’s shop and a sauna. There was one six-paned window. The door was a double board door. Between this building and the main house was a modest log-walled shed or canopy. According to the layout plan, there were also two buildings on the eastern side of the plot.

In 1857, insurance was taken out for the buildings on the eastern half of the plot. The owner at the time was C. Hastel, the town servant. The street-side building was old, in good condition and painted in red clay paint. The windows were six-paned and there were seven of them. There were five attic windows. The rooms were a hall, two chambers, a kitchen and a hallway. There were three semi-transomed partition doors, plus one simple plank door and a plank door in the hallway. There was a window above the entrance hall door. One of the ovens was circular tiled and two were brick. There was also a kitchen stove. On the eastern boundary of the property was a shed, which was of board construction. A log outbuilding was located on the southern boundary of the plot. It was old but in good condition. The building contained a barn and a food shed. There was also a latrine on the site.

Eleven years later, a new policy was taken out by the same owner. The main building was now boarded up and oil painted from the street and yard to the porch. Five windows had been replaced with larger six-paned ones. The porch had been rebuilt, boarded up, fitted with five windows and painted with the same oil paint as the rest of the building. Inside, three new white glazed tiled stoves had been added, and the walls in both rooms and hallway had been papered with new wallpaper, some in French, some in other printed paper. The board-and-batten shed on the eastern boundary of the property had been erected in 1857, and painted in red paint. The barn building had also been repaired, but the rooms had remained the same. The barn and privy building had been painted red.

In 1898, the buildings were again recorded. Even the shed was now painted with oil paint. The barn building was also boarded up and painted partly with oil paint and partly with water based paint.

In the same year, a completely new insurance policy was taken out for the buildings on the western half of the plot. The owner was now Miss Johanna Lindholm. The main building was listed as built partly in 1846 and 1847, partly in 1887. It was covered with an asphalt roof. The building had become an angled building on the corner of Kauppakatu and Pappilankatu. There were five living rooms plus a kitchen and a boarded porch. The section on the shopping street had undergone major repairs: the building had been re-roofed and oil-painted, the porch and all the windows had been replaced. Inside, the rooms had been wallpapered and painted, some of the stoves and the kitchen oven had been rebuilt. The baker’s room had been renovated and redecorated as a living room and fitted with a tiled fireplace. The former board shed had also been converted from logs into living quarters. The outbuilding was built in 1848, and partly in 1887. The whole building had been repaired, painted in oil paint and covered with double boards. The building contained a dormitory, a log cabin and a latrine.

Modification drafts

In 1899, there are two residential buildings on the plot along Kauppakatu, one of which is on the corner of Kauppa- and Pappilankatu. There are three outbuildings in the courtyard. On the side of the building on the corner, on Kauppakatu, the intention is to open a shop door and create a shop window next to it. The drawing by Arvi Forsman shows that the building is horizontal-roofed. The windows in the living rooms are double-paned and classically framed. The shop door is a double door with windows at the top. The display window will be a tall window divided into four panes by a crossbar, as were the new windows in many residential buildings at the same time. Only here the panes are larger. The door and window are given a uniform neo-renaissance style.

The 1902 alteration drawing shows that the east and west ends of the plot were separate. In addition to the residential building, there were two outbuildings on the east side and one outbuilding on the west side. The east side of the dwelling is a semi-detached house at the base, with a kitchen annex at one end. The other three rooms are living rooms with tiled stoves. There is also an entrance hall. The entrances, of which there are two, are located in front of the kitchen and the hallway. Both have a porch. Arvi Forsman has drawn a neo-renaissance style paneling for the house.

The modification drawing for the residential building on the western half of the plot dates from 1907 and was drawn by H. A. Toivonen. It shows that before the alteration, the residential building on Kauppakatu had a kitchen and three rooms in a two-roomed part with a wing facing Pappilankatu, to which a porch was attached on the courtyard side. The second entrance was also covered. The west corner room was converted into a commercial unit with two tall display windows and a corner door. The old entrances on the courtyard side were demolished and replaced with an extension to create more space for a new kitchen. The partition walls will be repositioned and the previously opened commercial door will be closed. In addition to the shop, the building will have four residential rooms and a kitchen, and three covered entrances on the courtyard side. The façades of the building follow the neo-renaissance tradition familiar in the city, but there are also Art Nouveau influences in the details. The corner door is topped by a small tower arch. In 1911, changes were made to the corner building. An extension is built on the courtyard side, with a kitchen and entrance hall. The exterior was also altered. On the south side of the property there is a single row of outbuildings, with a new brick section attached to the outbuilding on the neighbouring property and a new toilet block.

Changes will also be made to the east side of the street. A street door has been opened on the western end of the building on the Kauppakatu, and tall display windows will be created on both sides. L. Ahti’s drawing shows the building’s panelling in a restrained Art Nouveau style and the windows in the living rooms in T-shaped sections. The following plan, by John Sundqvist, dates from 1913. The plan was to open two new entrances on the street frontage. The windows and doors and their framing molding follow the spirit of the earlier shop doors and windows. It turns out that not all of the changes planned two years earlier had been implemented. The windows in the apartments now removed were six-paned and not T-pane. A one-room brick extension was added to the east boundary of the property on the courtyard side. The old outbuilding on the site was demolished. A small extension was also made to the timber part of the building to relocate the kitchen from the roof side to the courtyard side, where the former entrance hall used to be. The partition wall of the old kitchen was demolished and the space was joined to the new shop room.

The 1922 plan for the building on the corner of Pappilankatu and Kuninkaankatu was drawn up by Kaarlo Wirtanen. The corner door was to be closed and the windows in the corner room were to be converted into ordinary T-shaped windows for apartments. The intention was to reopen commercial premises at the eastern end of Kuninkaankatu and the southern end of Pappilankatu. The shop windows were large, and partly divided into small squares. The panelling of the windows was presented in a simple, 1920s classicist style. Extensions were proposed to the courtyard side.

In 1953, the buildings along the street were merged. The building on the corner of Kauppakatu and Pappilankatu was raised to make the street more unified. The courtyard side of the building was flattened and the attic space was converted into residential use. The basement was used for utility rooms, storage rooms, a packing house and a boiler room. Part of the section along the Pappilankatu was demolished because the old gateway along the Kauppakatu was built over. A small extension to the wooden building was also built on the courtyard side. The stone building was also extended and the row of outbuildings on the southern boundary of the site was demolished. All the street-level space in the building was converted to commercial use and divided into four commercial apartments. All were equipped with small offices and toilets; the ovens were demolished. Large single-pane display windows were added along the entire length of the street façade. The attic windows also became larger and more single-pane. The building was rendered in a very simple and minimalist manner to reflect the modernist aspirations of the time. It was designed by architect Helena Vainio.

In 1959, the stone building in the courtyard was raised and storage space was added in the attic. Part of the ground floor was connected to the shop. A sauna was also added to the building. In 1970, further alterations were made to the commercial premises. The partition walls were removed and a sliding door was opened between the two commercial premises, which until then had been separate. The basement was to be partly used as a showroom, i.e. connected to the shop. A driveway was built in the courtyard.

In 1983, the second apartment in the attic of the commercial building was converted into an office. The second apartment remained. The following year, the shop premises were consolidated, the ground floor toilets and storage facilities were removed and the shop was attached. A replacement toilet and cleaning cupboard were installed in the former sauna and storage space in the attic. In 1992, changes were to be made to the shop premises, which were to be divided into three shops. In the basement, social rooms were planned in the former storage and showrooms.

Current situation

Commercial building
Short-cornered residential building, now a commercial building, joined from two buildings on two plots, the western part built in 1846, and the eastern part before that, gabled roof, display windows, nothing remains of the old dwelling

Outbuilding
Garage made of board.