Tammela

History

In 1800 there were two owners of the house. One was the bourgeois Joseph Reilander, who also owned the garden on the plot. The other was an enlisted soldier, Ahl, who was poor.

Fire insurances

The fire insurance was taken out in 1858 by the workman W. Björkroth. There were four buildings on the plot. On Eteläpitkäkatu there was a residential building with a pass-through gateway. On the western boundary of the plot was a shed. In the central part of the plot, at the eastern end, was another outbuilding with a small outbuilding to the side. The southern part of the plot was a garden.

The main building was old and unplanked, but painted red. The rooms consisted of a hall with a side room separated by a plank wall, which had no heating, a baker’s room, three chambers, a hall and a dormitory next to the gate. The roof of the building is of board. There are nine four-paned windows and one six-pane attic window. There were six semi-transomed internal doors, plus an external door. There was a closet in the hallway, from which the attic stairs led. The building had three flat brown glazed tiled stoves, one brick tiled stove and a baking oven with a cooker. There were four chimneys, one for each fireplace. Three of the rooms had painted wallpaper. The dormitory attached to the dwelling had a false floor, i.e. it was two storeys high. The door was a sturdy double board door. The driveway gate to the property adjacent to the gateway was also double board; adjacent to the driveway gate was a smaller access gate.

The small building on the western boundary of the plot was a cellar and its associated cellar-head chamber. The building was not very old, it was in good condition and painted in red paint. It had two four-paned windows. The doors on both floors were double board doors. Both the basement and the living room had a brick tiled stove. There was one chimney.

The exterior was of log construction and in fair condition. It was old, unpainted and unplanked. There was a shed, a stable and two barns. The stable door was a double door and the other three doors were one-piece board doors. On the side of the outbuilding was a small, old, boarded-up wooden barn. It was in fair condition.

Modification drafts

An alteration drawing of the house by Arvi Forsman dates from 1903. It is from the phase when the building took on its present appearance. The alteration of the façade was part of a major renovation of the building and the additional building work that went with it. A room-wide extension was added to the courtyard side of the building. In addition, a two-room wing was added to the west end of the building. This replaced a separate two-roomed dwelling on the same site which was demolished. The eastern end of the main building was demolished to form a fence and gateway, and a new gate was built in place of the fence. The base of the building had previously been of the semi-detached type, with a boarded porch above the entrance hall. The new wide-bodied building had seven living rooms, a room that was apparently a shop with a door from the street, and four kitchens, three of which had a stove and one of which also had a baking oven. There were four entrances on the courtyard side, with three vestibules and a porch.

In 1910, the exterior of the plot was renovated according to the plans of Maurus Isakson. The building had a long wing on the eastern side of the plot, a short wing on the northern boundary and a long wing on the southern boundary. Part of the building was made of logs, part of plank, and included cattle sheds, storerooms and a latrine.

In 1977 the Tammela residence was converted into a music school. The outbuilding on the southern boundary of the plot was demolished, but the outbuilding on the northern and distant boundaries remained in place. In 1982, an old-style gate was planned for the roof side, but this was abandoned. In 1998, the premises were converted into a renovation centre. The plans were drawn up by Kalle Saarinen. The wooden outbuilding was demolished in the 1980s and in 2001 work began on assembling the old reef of the Prami house, which had been moved from Sorka, into a new outbuilding in Tammela.

Current situation

Residential building
Long-cornered residential building, extended in 1903, Neo-Renaissance lining in 1903 (Arvi Forsman), saddle roof

Outbuilding
Cement brick exterior.