Sukkla

History

The house was owned by And Anckar in 1800. He also had a field, a meadow, two food sheds, a reef with barns, two beach sheds and a dilapidated loading dock.

Fire insurances

Fire insurance for the plot was taken out in 1857, when the house was owned by the merchant P. Westerling. On the corner of Kauppakatu and Isopoikkikatu there was a gabled building, built in 1857. The building was still unplanked and unpainted. It had a porch and eleven rooms, a warm hall, a hall, seven chambers and a kitchen with a pantry and a dormitory. There were nine tiled stoves and a kitchen stove. The building had 22 windows, 21 attic windows and three porch windows. There were eight full French doors, the porch door was also of the same type, and there were three single-panel full French doors and three half French doors. There were eight white glazed tiled ovens, two brown tiled ovens and a kitchen oven with an iron stove and a baking oven. On the south side of the property was a building dating from 1840, which was unplanked and painted red. The building had an attic, a hallway and a wooden staircase. In addition to the baking oven, the building had a small vaulted sauna stove with its own flue. The building had two windows. Along Isoraastuvankatu, as an extension of the new building, was an outbuilding built in 1846. It was in good condition, unplanked and painted red. The building contained a stable, a barn with haylofts and a feed store. The gate was also insured. A small outbuilding, apparently a latrine, was left uninsured.

In 1887, merchant B. H. Westerling took out a new insurance policy for the house. The main building was now boarded up and painted with oil paint. The roof was made of felt. Both the planking and the felt roof had been done in the summer of the same year. In addition, the number of windows had been changed from 21 to 17. The interior had received new tiled stoves, wallpaper and skirting boards and a new kitchen oven. Seven residential rooms had been renovated. Another residential building had also been renovated. It had received a new foundation, rotten logs had been replaced and the building had been boarded up. The interior had been renovated and a new baking oven had been installed. The building still had a stove. The exterior of the building had also been repaired: it had been lined, painted partly with oil and partly with water based paint, and a new coach house had been built.

Modification drafts

There is an alteration drawing of the Sukkla residence from 1887, the same year that the repairs mentioned in the fire insurance were made. The building at the corner of Kauppakatu and Isopoikkikatu has a wide section on the Kauppakatu side with a hall in the middle and a heated hall on the courtyard side. On the other side of the hall there are two chambers, one on the street side and the other on the courtyard side. On the other side of the hall there are four chambers, two on the street side and two on the courtyard side. On the side facing Isopoikkikatu, there is a wing with a kitchen and a small pantry and closet behind it, and a dormitory in the same row with a false window on the street side. Now the plan is to build a porch-like extension on the courtyard side with a porch and a small kitchen. A separate entrance was built for the kitchen, with a canopy over the entrance, which is part of the extension’s pulp roof. The corner had a column with a cantilever decorated with a leaf-sawn triangular motif in the neo-Renaissance style. The facades of the building were shown as tripartite and the lining of the cross-paned windows terminated in a lily motif. The windows in the main rooms were wider and hexagonal.

The next modification drawing is from 1893. It shows the main building with a simple neo-renaissance lining. Two of the windows on the facade along the Kauppakatu were wider than the others, according to the original plan. The lower part of the cross-shaped windows is further divided into two squares. The framing of the windows was rectilinear, not lilac-headed as shown in the previous plan. A double door was opened in the centre of the building, as it was to house a branch of the Kansallisosakepankki (National Savings Bank). The name of the bank was on the tin roof above the door. The façade was perfectly symmetrical.

In 1910, Jalmari Karhula designed a modification and extension of the building. The premises on Kauppakatu remained unchanged, but an extension was built on the Isopoikkikatu side of the building on the site of the former macasin. Part of the outbuilding on the southern boundary of the plot was also removed, half of which was demolished. What remained was a baker’s house, a sauna, a latrine and a shed. The whole building was given a new look according to the plan. The new part of the building was two storeys high with a steep pitched roof. The main part of the building was partially gutted and the street frontage was added. A shop entrance was added at the corner of the building and shop windows on both sides of the street. Both the display windows and the other windows were covered with Art Nouveau panelling. The walls were finished with horizontal boarding. The upper part of the windows is small square. The chimneys are also drawn in Art Nouveau style, tapering upwards. The gate was also designed in the spirit of the building.

In 1917, they wanted to make internal changes to the new part of the building and open the entrance from the side of Isopoikkikatu. However, it will not be the entrance to the commercial building, but a representative passage to the apartments. Changes were made to the exterior of the building. A brick sauna section was added, the bakery was abandoned and the toilets were relocated. In 1925, Jalmari Karhula drew up a plan for the facade on the Kauppakatu side of the building. More shop windows are to be added. They are proposed to be similar to those on the corner of the building. The position of the entrance in the middle would be slightly altered and the door would be in the Art Nouveau style. The planking on the wall is shown on the drawing as the old three-tiered planking, which means that no new planking is proposed.

In 1956, a plan was drawn up for the conversion of the shop premises along Kauppakatu. There will be one more door on the roof side and a large display window next to it. Other shop windows are proposed to be enlarged and the listings removed. The doors will be up to date. The old tripartite cladding will be retained. The following year, they wanted to add one more shop door. There is a plan from 1959 to connect and modernise the flats on the Vanhankirkonkatu side. The furnaces would be demolished, the kitchens fitted out in keeping with the spirit of the times and the largest apartment would have a sauna and bathroom. The boiler room would be in the basement. The windows are proposed to be converted to standard ventilated windows. Although the windows would be lowered considerably, they would be fitted with the same Art Nouveau lining as before. The façade change was not carried out, although it was advocated. The next alterations were made in 1966, when a boiler room and central heating were installed. The apartments were also fitted with toilets. The indoor sauna had remained a dream, and is no longer proposed. The commercial premises were combined into a single shop. The old-style art nouveau mouldings are again in place in the drawing, even around the large shop windows. Garages had already been added to the outbuilding in 1958. In 1970, the sauna and toilets were removed.

In 1986, the residential and commercial building on the site was renovated. The fittings of the commercial and residential units were updated, and the attic space was converted into storage. In 1999, the roof door and display windows were replaced, with the upper parts divided into smaller squares, in the style of the original Art Nouveau windows.

Current situation

Residential twin building
Short-cornered residential and commercial building, built in 1857, hipped roof, shop windows, neo-renaissance Art Nouveau costume in 1910 (Jalmari Karhula). More shop windows in 1925 (Jalmari Karhula).

Residential building along Isopoikkikatu
two-storey wooden dwelling house with Art Nouveau lining, built in 1910, designed by Jalmari Karhula, saddle roof

Exterior building
Exterior building of board and brick in 1928

Gate
Gate designed by Jalmari Karhula.