Tornjaine

History

In 1756, Borgström is mentioned as the owner of the plot. Behind the plot were the cabbage fields of Sonki, Mattila and Rahgo. In 1800, the plot belonged to Johan Borgström, an enlisted soldier. He had more than a barrel of arable land and a meadow.

Fire insurance

Torniainen’s fire insurance was taken out in 1863 by the bourgeois Johan Henrik Hellsten. The main building was on Itäkatu. It was erected in 1845, unlined and painted with water based paint. The roof was made of sawn tiles. The rooms consisted of a lobby, a hall, four chambers and a kitchen. There were five tiled stoves and a kitchen stove. The floor plan of the building was in accordance with the Carolingian central hall plan. The large hall, the narrower kitchen and the hallway were in the centre, with two chambers at each end.

On the northern boundary of the plot was a small, modest, unpainted, plank-framed wooden porch. It was built in 1846. There was also a log outbuilding at the eastern end of the plot, on the southern boundary. There was an unpainted board fence on the southern boundary and a red-painted lattice fence on the eastern boundary.

A second fire insurance policy was taken out in 1884. The owner of the house at that time was R. F. Lindgren, a clerk in a shop. The main building was now boarded up and painted with oil paint. In addition, a porch had been built on the side of the yard. The inside of the house had also been renovated, the rooms had been wallpapered and painted, and the kitchen stove had been fitted with an iron stove.

A greenhouse had been built on the north side of the plot in 1882. It was a log building with one of the roof slates covered with board as usual, but the south slate was glass. It consisted of a larger and a smaller greenhouse and a small chamber with an entrance hall. There was a heating oven for the greenhouses and an iron fireplace in the chamber.

The outbuilding, which had not been insured the previous time, was now also declared insurable. It was thought to have been completed around 1845. The building was unplanked and unpainted, and contained a stable, barn and stables. There was also a boarded-up woodshed, which was not on the same site as the one mentioned in the previous policy. The fences and gate were intact. There was a well in the middle of the plot.

When the next insurance policy was taken out in 1894, the house was still owned by R. F. Lindgren. The occupation was now that of a Crown Treasurer. In 1888 a kitchen had been added to the main building on the courtyard side. All the rooms had been raised and papered. The roof had been rebuilt and covered with asphalt shingles. All the windows and window linings, window sills and double-glazed windows had also been replaced and painted. The number of rooms was unchanged. A new boarded porch had been built along with the new kitchen. All rooms were wallpapered and painted. In addition to the five tiled ovens, there was a kitchen stove, also tiled, with an iron stove.

The greenhouse was the old model. The outbuilding had been repaired and an addition made in 1891. The building now formed an angle to the corner of the plot. Most of the building was covered with felt. In addition to the stable, barn and woodshed, the building contained a privy.

In addition, there was a basement on the plot, which was newly insured. It was located close to the outbuilding and was excavated into the rock, with a log and board superstructure. The building had a tin roof. The front, which was four metres high, was painted with oil paint. The cellar had a tiled stove which could be heated if necessary. The rest of the plot was garden land.

In August 1898, the then sea captain John. R. Nordlund had a fire accident in the building, caused by a match that had been thrown away. The fire damaged the two chambers at the north end of the main building, where the wallpaper burned. The wallpaper in the hall and hallway was also damaged. The windows, doors, ceilings and floors of the chambers and hallway were damaged. One tiled stove was completely destroyed and another was damaged. The fire had started after the painter, who lived in two chambers of the house as a tenant, had left his apartment. He had not dealt with the fire that day except by lighting his cigar. He denied having thrown the match on the floor, but thought that the end of the match had fallen on the reed bed, from where the fire had spread to the walls.

Modification drafts

The modification drawing for the undivided plot 74 dates from 1881. At that time, in addition to the building on Itäkatu, there was another building at the southern corner of the plot on the road to Turku and a small building on the northern boundary of the plot against a neighbouring building. The plan was to build a greenhouse close to the northern boundary of the plot and the Turku road. The greenhouse would have two rooms and be heated.

A plan from 1888 shows the premises of the building on Itäkatu. In the middle of the street was the hall and on either side of it were two chambers, one on the street side and the other on the courtyard side. In the middle was the kitchen and the hall. This part was to be extended on the courtyard side to make the kitchen larger and to create a hallway with a board porch. The building has horizontal planking, hexagonal windows and classical panelling around the windows.

They wanted to make an extension to the outbuilding on the corner of Turun maantie and the park. The building had previously housed a stable, a barn shed and a latrine. The extension would include a wood room, coach house and sleeping quarters. Both the park side and the highway side would be lined with horizontal boarding and fitted with six-paned windows. On the site of the former greenhouse was a building comprising a lean-to, sauna and pantry, which was now to be extended by a section extending to the road, with a hall, kitchen and pantry. This building had a three-part neo-renaissance panelling, cross-paned windows and lilac-ended window surrounds. The 1901 alteration drawing showed that the extension to the bakery building had been completed, but not the extension to the outbuilding. Now they want to build a new latrine on the side of the outhouse. A cellar was also marked next to the outbuilding.

In 1908, Leonard Ahti drew an alteration plan for the residential building on the Turku road, now Tullivahe, which was to have a wing along the street, with a living room, hallway and glass veranda. The whole building was combined into four rooms, a baking room that served as a kitchen and a sauna. There were two entrances. This newer building had become the main building and the building on Itäkatu had apparently remained as a second residential building for rent. A kitchen was built into it from one of the chambers on the side of the courtyard.

In 1922, the premises of the building on the Tullivahe side were divided into three apartments. The sauna and a couple of chambers became kitchens and the baking oven was dismantled and the room became a chamber, with a hallway and alcove added. In 1928, a new kitchen fireplace was to be built in the hall of the building on Itäkatu. The building had three apartments after the change, all with a room and a kitchen.

In 1970, the building on Itäkatu was next altered. There were to be two apartments. The kitchen, which had previously been a hall, was divided into a room and a kitchen, and the original kitchen became a hallway, where a small toilet was also placed, as well as the hallway of the other apartment. One of the apartments was fitted with oil-fired stove heating. Both kitchens were fitted with worktops and the other with a wood stove and an electric cooker.

In 1985, the same changes were made as before. The building was converted into a single apartment. The original hall was converted back into a single room and the kitchen into its old location, although part of the space was needed for a bathroom. In 1986, an outbuilding was built in the courtyard to house a sauna, a living room, a garage, a wood room and two sheds. The plans were drawn up by Leevi Nurmi.

Current situation

Residential building
Long-cornered residential building dating from 1845, wide ribbed horizontal panelling on the street façade, clapboard cladding with architraves on the courtyard façade, saddle roof

Exterior building
New building from the 1980s, sauna and outbuildings

Gate
Early 20th century gate, relocated from elsewhere.