Torihaukk

History

In 1800, the Tori Haukka property, house 146, was owned by bourgeois Adolph Lindqvist and former bourgeois Gust. Brunberg. Lindqvist also owned a field, a meadow, two food fences and a share of a barn and a shed. Brunberg also had some arable land. The house Grå on plot 147 was owned by the bourgeois dowager Kaisa Lindqvist. She also had a field, a meadow, a granary, a barn and a shed outside the town’s zoning area.

Fire insurances

The house was insured against fire in 1847. The owner at that time was the merchant-porter E. Ancar. The main building on the shopping street was partly built in 1842 and 1846. The windows were hexagonal and there were six of them. There were also four square square windows. One half of a window is mentioned separately, the other half of which was a false window. There was a vaulted cellar under the building. It was in good condition, unplanked and unpainted. There were six rooms: an entrance hall, a hall, three chambers and a bread room. There were five partition doors, and they were semi-transparent. One of the ovens was brown-glazed and square, two smaller round ones were brown-glazed, and there was a brick oven. There was also a baking oven with a stove. The outbuilding containing the cattle sheds was located on the western boundary of the property, with the end facing the shopping street. The building was old and in fair condition. The premises consisted of a barn, stables and a feed store. On the south side of the plot was a barn, which was old and in fair condition, painted red. The building had two barns and two barn overhangs. There was a canopied driveway gate and another simple boarded driveway gate to the property.

In 1852, the insurance company was notified of a change where the front hall had been converted into a kitchen. Shortly afterwards, a new building in the centre of the plot was covered by the insurance.

In 1879, a new insurance policy was issued. The owner of the house was then the widow of the merchant-porter H. E. Ancar. The main building was now boarded up and painted with oil paint. The building had a porch. The roof was now asphalt shingles. On the side of the Isoraastuvankatu, a section had been built the same summer as the main building as a corner gable, which had not been boarded up but had been painted grey. The new building was also covered with an asphalt roof. The building had two chambers and a covered staircase. Both chambers had porcelain stoves. On the south side of the plot, on the side facing Isoraastuvankatu, there was another residential building, some of which was old, some built in 1877. The building was unplanked and painted red. The rooms were a hall, a chamber, a pantry, a kitchen and a porch. The building had two porcelain stoves and a kitchen stove with an iron handle. The building in the centre of the plot was described as recently built, unplanked and painted in red paint. The building contained a laundry room, probably a sauna, and two dormitories. The fireplace was a stove in the laundry. The cattle sheds were located in a row on the western side of the plot. They were reported as old. One of the buildings contained a barn, stables and feed shed, the other a barn, coach house and dormitory. The only driveway on the plot was now on the side facing Isoraastuvankatu.

In the summer of 1890, the house suffered a fire accident caused by a biscuit falling from the kitchen stove. The fire completely destroyed a separate residential building on the Isoraastuvankatu side, leaving only the stone foundation, the upright stoves and the kitchen’s cast-iron stove with its iron smoke horns. The owner of the house, the postmaster’s widow and her family, was on a summer holiday at the time of the fire. A tailor and his family lived in the burnt building as tenants. The tailor himself had been in the chamber when he heard an apprentice shouting that the fire had been put out. When the tailor rushed to the scene, the entire kitchen was already in flames. He had tried to extinguish the fire, but was unsuccessful, as the fire was almost immediately in the hall. The tailor’s wife had been making coffee in the kitchen at about 6 a.m., a few hours before the fire started. She had been in the hall when the fire started and had quickly left the house and the yard via the porch. She had only managed to take her young son with her. His wife, who was visiting, did not have time to leave the door but had to jump out of the window on the street side.

In 1891, the then owner, Valfrid Vikman, took out a new insurance policy for the house. The main building is mentioned as having been built partly in 1842 and 1846, partly in 1891. The building has ten rooms: three halls, five chambers, a bookshop, a kitchen, a hallway and four porches with plank construction. More were built at the end of both Isoraastuvankatu and Kauppakatu. The shop staircase is located at the corner of the building. The property values were reassessed in 1886, when the main building was again extended. There were now thirteen rooms: 4 halls, 7 chambers, and a bookshop room, one with an additional 4 porches. The bookshop and bookstore were actually served by three chambers on the Isoraastuvankatu side. At the southern end of the building, a room was also built for the book depository. Two chambers, two storage rooms and a toilet were built in the row facing the shopping street. The second building was reported to be old but in good condition. It had been boarded up and painted with oil paint the previous summer and covered with an asphalt roof. The building contained a baking room and a sleeping room. One of the outbuildings was reported to be in good condition. It was boarded up, painted with water-based paint and roofed with tiles. The building contained a barn, stables and a dormitory. The other outbuilding was old and in fair condition, boarded up and painted with water based paint. The roof of this building was also tiled.

The building had two carpenters and a dormitory. An oil-painted fence and a wellhead building were also covered. The fire insurance policy was accompanied by a drawing from 1900 showing how electric lighting could be installed in the bookshop.

In 1902 there was a fire accident in which a spark from a furnace nest flew into a nearby bed. The fire had spread from the bedclothes to the wall and the ceiling. Fortunately, the fire was soon extinguished and the damage was relatively minor.

Modification drafts

A modification drawing by John F. Lindegren from 1891 has survived. There were five buildings on the plot, the residential buildings along Kauppakatu and Isoraastuvankatu were connected by a link. The building on the Kauppakatu side was a semi-detached building. There were two outbuildings on the western side of the plot and one in the middle. The conversion involved extending the residential building at the commercial street end with a kitchen and porch, and at the Isoraastuvankatu end with three rooms and a porch. In addition, changes were made to the partition walls. A commercial door was opened at the corner of the street. After the alterations, the building had eight rooms, a hallway with a tiled stove, a kitchen and four porch-like entrances on the courtyard side. All the rooms were connected to each other. The cladding of the façades is presented in a decorative neo-renaissance style, with the same details used by the designer to achieve the most representative result. In 1896, an additional room was to be added to the side of the house facing Isoraastuvankatu, and a porch-like extension was to be added to the courtyard, with a small room and hall and toilets. A handsome neo-renaissance manor house was designed along Isoraastuvankatu. The designer is E. käläinen. The plan from 1898 is to build tall, narrow display windows in the bookshop on the corner of the building, two on the Kauppakatu side and one on the Isoraastuvankatu side. In addition, a new porch will be built on the courtyard side. There is another shop window plan from the same year, this one with a tripartite window. This plan was implemented.

An alteration drawing from 1903 shows the purpose of the long and narrow building in the middle of the courtyard. It was a baker’s shop. However, it was decided to replace the baking oven with a different kind of fireplace. The building may have been intended to be used as a workshop.

In 1906, changes are made according to plans by Onni von Zansen. The house is owned by pharmacist Hjalmar Hällfors, and the premises are converted into a pharmacy. The pharmacist’s apartment will also be built in the same building. The pharmacy was already accessed through a corner door, but a number of adjacent rooms were connected to the pharmacy room. In addition, the whole of the Isoraastuvankatu side of the building and the extension on the courtyard side will serve the pharmacy. The rooms have been designated as a laboratory, a pharmacy students’ room, a pharmacists’ room, a pharmacist’s room, a pantry, a laundry and baking room and a room for the mineral water factory, which also included a store for empty bottles. The pharmacy also included a rinsing room, a small storage room and an entrance on the side of the courtyard. The same entrance also provides access to the pharmacy’s office space, while a separate entrance provides access to the barber’s pantry. In addition, the pharmacy and the mineral water plant are accessed from another entrance on the courtyard side. There is a separate entrance to the laundry and baking room. The laboratory and the mineral water plant are separated by a brick wall running through the building, although there are several doors. On the side facing the Kauppakatu, there is a reagent room serving the pharmacy, with access to the master’s room in the pharmacist’s apartment. The other rooms are for residential use. There is a hall, dining room, bedroom, daughter’s and son’s room, kitchen, bathroom and maid’s room, as well as a few closets. There are two entrances, one to the apartment and one to the kitchen. The sectional drawing shows that the dining room has a large Art Nouveau fireplace and a small cornice at the wide window. The door details have an Art Nouveau theme. The alterations will allow the street facades to retain their former neo-renaissance look, but the bedroom of the apartment will have two windows instead of one. The wide and tall display window in the pharmacy is an older addition. The double doors that previously led into the commercial building will be replaced with a single, Art Nouveau door.

The exterior buildings will be renovated. The drawing shows that the building in the middle of the plot has been used in the past partly as an envelope factory, partly as a latrine and a wooden shed. It will now be demolished, along with the other wooden outbuildings. In its place, a brick outbuilding on the corner of the site was replaced by a pharmacy warehouse, a wooden shed, toilets and stables, a coach house, an ice cellar and a few other storage rooms.

In 1923 the buildings were altered. An entrance was added to the side of the shop on the side of the Kauppakatu, where the gentlemen’s room is located. The room was used for business purposes. The premises of the mineral water works and the various workers’ quarters were combined to form an apartment, which also included a threshing room and a laundry and baking room. The wall stove was replaced by a stove, and the room served as a kitchen. An entrance was added from Isoraastuvankatu and a single window. This commercial and residential apartment was also connected to the pharmacy. The designer of the conversion is exceptional in Rauma: the Helsinki architect Toivo Paatela.

In 1940, a boiler room was built in the basement of the pharmacy building and the whole building was converted to central heating. The furnaces were proposed for demolition. Three doctors’ offices were built in the wing of the building facing Isopoikkikikatu. In 1954, a sauna was built in the basement under the apartment block. The attic rooms were also heated and put into use. In 1957, the heating was converted to oil and the boiler room was modified. A toilet had been installed in the doctor’s offices. The commercial building on the shopping street served as a drug store. In 1961, the attic floor was taken over. A small servants’ room was added in the attic. In 1965, the doctor’s office was converted into a cafeteria restaurant and one of the rooms in the apartment became a dentist’s office. In the same year, a garage was added to the outbuilding. In 1972, a reception room for the dentist/physician was added to the commercial end of the dwelling and the reception room on the courtyard side was converted back into a residential room. In 1974, a sauna was added to the apartment. The sauna room was placed in the old cloakroom.

Current situation

Commercial building
Short-cornered residential outbuilding, north wing from 1842 – 1846, east wing from 1879, neo-renaissance lining in 1891 (John F. Lindegren), shop windows, hipped roof

Exterior building
Pure brick red brick building, 1906

Gates
Renaissance gates, renovated in 1983 to E. Ikäläinen’s design.