Tonttla and Pakila

History

In 1756, Tonttila was found to belong to Böckerman and Pakila to Johan Böckerman. Possibly it was the same person. In 1800, plot number 23, Pakila, belonged to the bailiff Michel Raumolini and Tonttila to the bailiff Isak Ahlberg. Both had fields. Raumolin had a reef and a barn and a shore shed, and also had ship’s shares. Ahlberg had a barn.

Fire insurances

Plot 24, the plot along Isopoikkikatu, was insured against fire in 1848 by the master baker Knut I. Hummelin. At that time there were two buildings on the plot. One was an angular building with one wing along Isopoikkikatu. The other building was on the northern boundary of the plot. There was also a small building on the western border of the plot. On the neighbouring plot, which was later merged with the site, there was an angular building on the corner of Kuninkaankatu and Isopoikkikatu, and two small outbuildings on the northern boundary of the plot.

The main building on plot 24 was partly old, partly built in 1845. The building was unlined, but painted with red paint. It had two lobbies, a hall and two chambers, a total of three tiled ovens and a kitchen stove, a baker’s oven with a stove and a copper boiler, a bakery shop, a dormitory with an attic, a stable and a barn. The building had five six-paned windows, one smaller window and four half windows. The pantry, kitchen and hallway and the store room had paper wallpaper and skirting boards painted with oil paint. There was one square tiled stove with yellow glazing and two with brown glazing. The kitchen oven and the baking oven were also part of the fireplaces. There were four chimneys. The external doors were semi-transparent and there were four of them. There were also a pair of board doors, apparently from the interior, and a set of board doors and hatches as exterior doors to various rooms. The outbuilding was a boarded timber shed with an attached privy. A driveway was also insured.

In 1884, a new insurance policy was issued. The house was then owned by the baker J. A. Sjöblom. Plots 23 and 24 were now joined and the building stock had been renewed. The residential building on the Isopoikkikatu side was in good condition and had been altered in 1882. It had not been boarded up, but had been painted with red paint. The roof was brick. There is a vaulted stone cellar under the building. The rooms consisted of a foyer, hall, two chambers, kitchen and a covered outside staircase. There were three tiled stoves and one kitchen stove with an iron stove. The rooms had been renovated with new porcelain tiled stoves, floors, ceilings, windows and wallpaper. The entrance to the cellar was also new (as was the cellar, apparently).

The building at the corner of Kuninkaankatu and Isopoikkikatu had been thoroughly renovated and altered in 1876. The building was boarded up and painted with oil paint. The roof was made of boards. There is a vaulted stone cellar under the building. There were two hallways, three closets, two halls, two chambers and a kitchen. There were four tiled stoves and one kitchen stove with an iron stove. The building had been extended and the old rooms had been renovated: floors, doors, windows, ceiling and wallpaper had been replaced.

The third residential building, located along Kuninkaankatu, was built in 1846. The building was boarded up and consisted of a hall and a kitchen. There was also a tiled stove, a kitchen stove and a plate oven. The roof of the building was made of tiles. This building had also been improved. The bakery building, which was an extension of this building, in the same row, on the west side of the property, was built in 1862 of brick and was plastered. The roof was boarded. The building contained a bakery oven with a copper masonry pot. The driveway to the property also included a gateway. The outbuilding, still in the same row, was made of board in 1863. It was painted red and had a pitched roof. It had a wooden staircase and a latrine. The old dwelling and outbuilding on the northern edge of the plot was painted red brick but was not boarded up. It had an entrance hall, pantry, hall and dormitory with an attic above, plus a stable and barn. The building had one tiled stove.

The insurance was next renewed in 1889, when the house was owned by baker I. V. Grönfors. The residential building facing Isopoikkikatu was now boarded up and painted with oil paint. There was a porch with windows on the courtyard side. The building had also been renovated. The building at the corner of Kuninkaankatu and Isopoikkikatu has one more chamber and a tiled stove. In addition, the rooms have been raised with a log inside. All windows and doors have been brought up to date. All the tiled stoves are porcelain and two of them are decorated with high reliefs. The rooms were wallpapered with expensive wallpaper. The ceilings and floors were nicely painted. The other residential building on Kuninkaankatu had also received new doors and windows, as well as new planking. The rooms were painted and papered.

The bakery building had been renovated to bring it up to date with the baker’s work. The other buildings had not been significantly altered.

Modification drafts

The building on the corner of Kauppakatu and Isopoikkikatu was extended from the courtyard side in 1899. The design was made by Otto F. Holm. Two heated vestibules were added in place of the flat roof. On the street side of the building there was a commercial door with stairs leading to it from two sides. In addition to the shop, there were two rooms on the Kuninkaankatu side, a pantry and a kitchen on the Isopoikkikatu side and a pantry and kitchen entrance on the yard side. The new part of the building had vertical planking ending in a round-arched dovetail. Above the door was a neo-renaissance ornament with buttons and fretwork motifs. Above the T-shaped windows was a triple-headed ornament with scalloped curlicues. A tall, narrow display window was added to the roofline in 1901. At the same time, the shop door was replaced and the tall staircase was removed. The plans were drawn up by Arvi Forsman. The building was vertically planked and the planking ended in a scribble. The T-shaped windows were surrounded by a decorative neo-renaissance frame similar to that around the courtyard door.

In 1908, changes were made to the western building, with the end facing Kuninkaankatu. A new partition wall was added to divide the main part of the building into a store room, a pantry with an adjoining alcove and a kitchen. From the kitchen there is a connection to the adjacent brick bakery section. Arvi Forsman’s drawing shows the building’s façade in a neo-renaissance style. The planking is horizontal board, the attic section has windows, decorative brackets and coffered windows. The trim on the shop door and T-pane windows was similar to that on the other building on the site. The building’s roof was shingled and sheet metal. In the same year, a fireplace alteration was made to the building along Isopoikkikatu and on the northern boundary of the property. There was an apartment along Isopoikkikatu with a hall, two chambers, a kitchen and a hallway. In the courtyard wing there were two separate chambers. The wing continues on the outbuilding.

The building at the corner of Kuninkaankatu and Isopoikkikatu has an alteration drawing from 1912 by M. Isaksson. The change was to turn the entrance to the shop into a window. There is no shop window on the drawing. The building also has a raised attic ‘since the turn of the century’. The walls are now horizontally planked, but the decorative window frames are similar in appearance to the older drawings. The attic section also has a triple-headed stage on both sides, as one of the attic windows is larger than the others, and an extra small ridge has been added to the eaves.

In 1919, tall, narrow display windows were added to the west building and the door to the commercial building was replaced. At the same time, the decorative mouldings above the windows and doors were removed.

In 1922, the oven in the bakery section was demolished and replaced by a conventional heating oven. At the same time, all the partition walls of the end shop were demolished and the space became a single shop. There were also fireplace modifications in the Isopoikkikatu building: the kitchen stove was demolished. A baking room was created in the second chamber of the courtyard wing, with a baking oven, a masonry stove and a stove.

The 1937 drawing of the modification concerns the façade on the Kuninkaankatu side of the building. Two shop doors were added to the windows and two windows were enlarged to form tall and narrow display windows. There is another plan from the same year, in which one more window was added and the location of another shop door was changed.

Current situation

Corner building
Elongated residential building as a commercial building, horizontal planking on the roof side, original vertical planking on the courtyard facade, saddle roof, display windows originally from 1937, later windows enlarged and added. Despite alterations, some neo-renaissance features have been retained.

Another building on the side of the street
Residential building with elongated corners, now a commercial building, horizontal boarded, hipped roof, display windows. The building retains some neo-renaissance features.

Exterior building
Brick exterior with rendered brick

Exterior building
Vertical boarded exterior building

Building parallel to Isopoikkikatu
Elongated residential building, partly built in 1845, partly before, with later vertical boarding on the street façade, early vertical boarding on the courtyard façade

Gates
Old gate on the Isopoikkikatu side, rebuilt gate on the Kuninkaankatu side.