Sepplä

History

In the annex to the 1756 land map, the owner of the plot is listed as Ludeen’s widow. In 1800 it was owned by the former bourgeois Johan Ludeen. He had more than two barrels of arable land, plus two acres of meadows, a food shed, a reef and barn, and a shed on the beach.

Fire insurance

The fire insurance was taken out in 1849 by Samuel Sevon, a gold and silver worker. The main building on Kuninkaankatu was built in 1843. It was unplanked and painted with red paint. The building consisted of a lobby, a hall, two chambers, one of which had a partition wall of two-inch boards. The building also had a kitchen. The external staircase was covered. There were seven windows, all of green glass. In addition, there were six triple-paned attic windows. The doors were semi-transparent and oil painted. There were also two smaller ones, painted red. Of the unglazed tiled windows, one was square and the other round. There was also a brick oven. The kitchen oven had a baking oven.

The outbuilding on the side of Isopoikkikatu was old and in poor condition. It was not boarded up. The building had two porches with an attic above them. It appears to have been a barn. The other outbuilding, on the southern boundary of the site, was also in poor condition. It was built in 1844, partly of new and partly of old logs, and was unplanked and unpainted. The building contained a barn and stables. Insurance was also taken out on the drive and visit gates, which were painted red, and on the small gate.

In 1859, the insurance policy was renewed, the land was still in the same ownership. The building on Kuninkaankatu had been repaired and altered, boarded up, raised and painted with oil paint. It had a hall, a chamber, a kitchen and a hallway. The kitchen had a stove and a baking oven. There were two tiled stoves, one with white glazing and the other round. The windows were six-paned and the number of windows was unchanged, as were the attic windows. There were five semi-transomed partition doors. There was also one simple board door and a hallway door, which was a semi-transparent mirrored door, with a window above it. One room had fabric wallpaper and a paper ceiling, the other had French wallpaper. In the hallway there were two cupboards. The porch door was a double door with a simple board. The porch also had windows. An extension had been built to the main building on the side facing Isopoikkikatu. It was built in 1858. The building was made of logs and partly of board. It was unlined and unpainted. The premises consisted of a goldsmith’s workshop, a hall, a granary and a barn, all of which were made of logs. There was one tiled stove with a clay tile roof and a brick wall in the workshop. The roof was of board. The windows were six-paned and there were six of them. There was also one six-paned false window and ten three-paned attic windows. There were two intermediate doors, and they were semi-transparent.The outer door was a double board door. The building had a porch. The attic staircase led from a closet in the hall. The building also had a number of simple board doors, hatches, etc. One room had paper wallpaper and the walls and ceiling were painted with watercolour. Under the building was a brick vaulted cellar. The fences, gate and well perimeter were also insured.

In 1893, a new insurance policy was issued. The house was then owned by sea captain F. V. Lindbland. In 1891, the whole building was covered with an asphalt roof. The wing on the Kuninkaankatu side had three living rooms, a cold hall and a porch. The wing at the back of the courtyard, on the south side, and the wing on the east side were thoroughly renovated in 1891. It was planked and painted partly with mixed paint and partly with oil paint. The building had six rooms, a hall, a kitchen, a dormitory, a barn and a latrine with a ferry. There was one tiled stove, plus a kitchen stove with a bread oven. The gates and fence were also insured, as was the well cover.

Modification drafts

The modification drawing of the Sepplä buildings from 1913 was made by Arvi Forsman. The building at the corner of Kuninkaankatu and Isopoikkikatu was proposed to have a neo-renaissance design with horizontal plastered walls. The framing of the T-windows was quite simple. It consisted of straight and chamfered mouldings and button mouldings. The corner of the building had a commercial entrance with a small lantern above it. There were two shop windows to the commercial building on the Kuninkaankatu side and one on the Isopoikkikatu side. The windows were narrow and tall, and were made to replace the windows in the living room. In the course of the conversion, a new kitchen was built on the courtyard side of the building, replacing the porch, and a new porch was added to the porch. The second kitchen in the building had a baking oven.

In 1912, changes were made to both the exterior and interior of the building. The whole building was filled with commercial space. A new entrance to the shop was added on the Isopoikkikatu side, although there was already a corner door to the same shop. The premises were made uniform when the partition wall was demolished. The kitchen on the Isopoikkikatu side was demolished and the room was converted into a storage room. On the Kuninkaankatu side, a pair of living rooms remained, one of which was renamed the manager’s room. A small kitchen on the courtyard side was also retained. On the southern boundary of the plot was an outbuilding wing with two dormitories, a wood stove and a latrine. A door was also opened to the macaque from the side of Isopoikkikatu. The commercial building was raised and given a completely new Art Nouveau appearance. Onni von Zansen’s design had a distinctly National Romantic touch. The gate was also made in the same style. In 1914, a second shop door was opened on the Kuninkaankatu side of the shop, in a room previously used as the shop keeper’s room. The new door was similar to the Art Nouveau doors previously in the building. The designer was still Onni von Zansen.

In 1917, they wanted to close the shop door on the Isopoikkikatu side and reduce the size of the corner shop by building a new partition wall. In 1919, the first shop windows were opened in the corner shop. A new room was to be built on the courtyard side, but this apparently never happened. On the drawing, the corner shop was again in its old large form. On the side facing Isopoikkikatu they wanted to close the shop door again. The street-side bedroom on the exterior wing was converted into a living room and fitted with windows similar to those in the rest of the building. In 1933, the building was again converted into a dwelling. It was placed on the side of Isopoikkikatu. More space was taken from the outbuilding for a toilet and storage. The former storeroom became a dining room and a room that may have been separated from the commercial building in 1917 was converted into a kitchen. In 1949 the large kitchen was divided into two parts, a pantry and a bedroom.

In 1960, the following major changes were made. A large single dressing room was added to the building and most of the partition walls on both the Kuninkaankatu and Isopoikkikatu wings were demolished. The building was left with the caretaker’s apartment, which had a room and kitchen and a sleeping alcove. It was now located entirely on the side of the former outbuilding. A boiler room for central heating was also built and all the old fireplaces were demolished. The attic was taken over as a store for the shop. The shop was fitted with large, unified shop windows on both sides of the roof.

Current situation

Street-side building
Long-cornered residential building, partly commercial, north wing built in 1843, west wing in 1858, siding and Art Nouveau style 1912 (Onni von Zansen), gabled roof, display windows, large windows from 1960.

Exterior building
Outer building with horizontal timbering, built in 1844.