Talala

History

In 1756 the Talala plot belonged to Birckstedt. In 1800 the owner was the shoemaker Michel Eldberg. He had two barrels of arable land, a meadow and a barn.

Fire insurance

In 1847, the fire insurance was taken out by the city’s vice-chancellor, F. W. Ridderstedt. There were two buildings on the plot, a residential building on Kuninkaankatu and an outbuilding on the northern boundary. The main building was old and had been boarded up in 1846. The rooms consisted of a lobby, a hall, three chambers and a baker’s pantry. The external staircase was covered and the roof was supported by pillars. There were nine four-paned windows and three attic windows. The roof was boarded and the building also had wooden gutters. The building also had cavity tubes. The entrance hall door was a semi-transomed double door with a window above it. There was a cupboard in the entrance hall, leading up to the attic stairs and another cupboard. There were four intermediate doors, all of which were half French doors. Three of the rooms had paper wallpaper and skirting and ceiling tiles. Two of the stoves were square and two round, with brown glazing. There was also a baking oven with a stove.

The outbuilding was built of new materials in 1845. It was unplanked and painted in red brick. The rooms included a dining hall, a wooden shed, a chalet, a stable and a barn. The building had a pitched roof. Also insured were the drive gate, which was double boarded, and the property fence, which was made of pontoon board. There was also a trellis fence.

In 1852, the insurance company was notified of an extension built on the western boundary of the plot, between the previous buildings. At the same time, the baker’s shop in the street-side building had been converted into a hall. The street-side building was also painted on three sides with oil paint. In 1863, a new insurance policy was issued. The ownership of the land had not changed. It turned out that the main building had been painted yellow. The rooms now consisted of a lobby, two halls and three chambers. The building had new windows and had been painted inside and out in 1862.

The 1852 extension consisted of two parts. One was the residential part, made of logs and unpainted. This part of the building had a vaulted brick cellar above ground and a kitchen with an iron stove and a masonry oven and baking oven. The outbuilding part of the annexe consisted of a coach house and a privy with an attached manure shed. The 1845 outbuilding on the northern boundary of the property had not been altered.

In 1898, the then owner of the house, photographer Olivia Berglund, reported the house for reassessment. The building had been covered with an asphalt shingle roof, repointed and given a new stone foundation in 1896. A warm room and three hallways were built on the north side of the building. All the rooms had been raised inside, with new windows, doors, ceilings, floors and fine, modern fireplaces. There were now six living rooms and three hallways. The residential part of the annex was reported to have a kitchen, a pantry and a small bathroom. The kitchen stove had a small bread oven, a baking oven, a stove and a masonry stove. The bathroom also had a cooker. The building was partly planked and painted with oil paint and partly with red paint. The old shingle roof was reportedly left under the new felt roof of both parts of the dwelling. The outbuildings, on the other hand, were reported to be tiled.

Modification drafts

From 1896 there is V. O. W. Johansson’s modification drawing for the change mentioned in the fire insurance. There is a two-storey building along Kuninkaankatu with two rooms, an entrance hall and a vestibule, and rear chambers at both ends. In fact, the building is composed of two parts, as the hall on the west side and the adjoining chamber are wider than the rest of the body of the building. The wing on the courtyard side had a baker’s pantry, which served as a kitchen, and behind it a chamber and sauna. The building continues as an outbuilding, built in with the outbuilding on the northern boundary of the site. Now, a porch-like extension was to be built on the residential side of the courtyard, with three porch-like entrances and a heated entrance hall. The old entrance hall was connected to the entrance hall chamber. The rooms on the Kuninkaankatu side had tiled stoves facing the courtyard wall, but these are now to be moved closer to the centre of the building. The façade of the building has been designed as a tripartite, the windows as T-shaped and the framing of the windows in classical style. The new porch was horizontal-panelled with diagonal-paned porch windows and a lantern on the roof with small-paned decorative windows.

In 1898, Onni von Zansen drew up plans to build a photographic studio on the side of a building on Kuninkaankatu. At the same time, an entrance was made on the street facade at the east-facing window. The window panelling is in the neo-renaissance style and the windows are four-paned. The Renaissance framing was not implemented.

In 1908, alterations were made to the courtyard wing of the building, which had previously housed not only residential but also outbuildings. The bakehouse was moved to the north end of the wing and given its own entrance. The old bakehouse was divided into a kitchen and a pantry. The former sauna and outbuilding were replaced by two chambers with a common entrance and a small porch in front. On the northern boundary of the plot, built together with the western boundary building, is an outbuilding with four rooms and a now renovated toilet.

In 1933, a narrow, tall display window was built next to the street entrance to the photographic shop, and at the same time the door was replaced with another type. The windows in the living rooms are T-pane and their frame mouldings are still classical. The moulding of the new shop window and door also follows the same line. In 1936, the baking oven was replaced by a conventional stove, and the kitchen and adjoining rooms were combined into a single apartment.

In 1984, a corner door was made in the commercial space of the building and a display window was made on the side facing Pappilankatu. The interior was combined for commercial use. However, an apartment remained on the street side.

In 1993, all the premises were converted to commercial use, and a new shop entrance and shop window were built on the roof side.

Current situation

Residential building
Short-cornered residential building, partly commercial, later west wing built in 1852, south wing before that, horizontal roof timbering 1947, saddle roof, display window

Exterior building
Elongated corner outbuilding, horizontal boarded

Gate
Neo-Renaissance gate from 1913.