Sipi

History

Sipi belonged to the bourgeois Erik Moisander in 1800. In addition to the house, he had a field, a food shed, a reef with a barn and a shed on the beach.

Fire insurance

In 1861, the house of Sipi was insured against fire by the merchant Gabriel Granlund. At that time there were five buildings on the plot. The main building along the Kalatori was built in 1843, boarded up and painted with grey oil paint. The building had a boarded roof. There were eight six-paned windows and eight attic windows. There was a windowed porch on the courtyard side. The building had two chimneys. The rooms were a hall, a hall, three chambers and a kitchen. The floor plan of the building was a Caroline central hall floor. The rooms had tiled stoves, two of which were square, brown-faced, one round brown-faced and one round yellow-faced. There was also a kitchen stove. Four rooms had paper wallpaper, and the hallway was wallpapered with canvas. The stairs to the attic led from the hall closet. The entrance hall door was a semi-transparent double door with a window. The outer door was also a double door, double boarded. The six doors in the rooms were half French mirror doors.

On the Kalatori side of the gateway was a small residential building, quite new and in good condition. The building was lined on three sides and painted with grey oil paint. There were two hexagonal windows and two attic windows. The building had a porch, a hall and a pantry with a brown tiled stove and wallpaper on the walls. There were two semi-transparent French doors. Adjoining this building on the side of the courtyard was an old dwelling and outbuilding in satisfactory condition. The building was painted red. It had a single 16-paned fritted window. There were three doors. The building contained a stable, a barn and an entrance hall with a washroom wall. At the back of the courtyard was another dwelling and outbuilding, old but in good condition. It had three windows, two of the same size and one slightly smaller. There were four windows in the attic. There were eight different types of doors. The rooms were a baking room and a chamber with a brick tiled stove. The building also had a dormitory, two vestibules, a barn and a shed.

There was one more outbuilding on the north side of the plot, which was a boarded-up macasin.

Modification drafts

The 1905 modification drawing for the Sipi plot concerns the extension of a residential building on the southern boundary of the plot. The plan was drawn up by Arvi Forsman. A kitchen and a new entrance are to be built at the end of the building. The extension will be built on the site of a previously separate building. It was probably a shed. The residential building will consist of three rooms, a kitchen and two hallways. The façade of the building will have a neo-renaissance lining, and a handsome gateway will be built between the residential buildings on the plot along the Kalatori. On the western and northern boundaries of the plot there will be an outbuilding. The 1916 plan was to replace the outbuilding on the western boundary with a brick, rendered stone building to house a baker’s shop and adjoining hall, a sauna, a barn, stables, pigsty, shed, latrine and privy. The wing on the northern boundary of the plot would be left with a couple of sheds and a roof. In 1920 it is planned to widen the residential part of the building. In addition to the bakehouse and sauna, there is a stove room in this part of the building. Only later drawings reveal that the brick outbuilding was never built to the length originally planned, but to the exact extent of the proposed widening.

In 1958, premises are taken over from the attic of the building to the south. The high wooden gate on the site is replaced by a modern metal one.

In 1974, the buildings are altered. The bakery is abandoned and the building is renovated into a room and kitchen apartment and a sauna. A toilet will be added to both, and a room with a fireplace will be added next to the sauna. The windows will also be changed. A garage will be added to the wooden outbuilding in addition to the former latrines. The kitchen facilities in the residential building will also be renovated. There are plans to build a stately old-style gate to replace the metal tubular gate. This plan is the first to propose the restoration of the old-style gate. However, the gate was not built.

In 1999, attic space will be taken from the building facing the Kalatori to serve as ancillary accommodation.

Current situation

Residential building
Long-cornered residential building, built in 1843, original ribbed horizontal planking, hipped roof, hipped roof, pitched roof, neo-renaissance window frames in 1904 (Arvi Forsman).

Residential building
Elongated residential building from around mid-19th century, lined like the previous one, western part rebuilt in 1860, hipped roof, tiled roof.

Outbuilding
Exterior building from the horizontal slab

Outbuilding
Plastered brick outbuilding and open porch.