Wähä-Krann

History

Plot 247 was called Joki-Päivase in 1800. It was owned by the bourgeois Nath. Berglund. He also owned more than three barrels of arable land, a meadow, a food shed, a reef, a barn and a waterfront shed, as well as ship’s shares.

Modification drafts

The oldest alteration drawing for the buildings on the plot dates from 1887. Before the alterations, there were two separate residential buildings on the plot. One was on the western boundary of the plot, with two rooms and a kitchen with a baking oven in the middle. The second, smaller building, facing the river, had two rooms with a hall and kitchen between them. At the end of the western building there had apparently been a shed used as an outbuilding, which was now to be converted into a living room. The corner of the buildings was still occupied by a boardwalk, accessed from the river side. The intention was to extend the building facing the river with two rooms and a porch. The idea was to place a stove on the porch. The new part was wider than the old building, and a high, passable veranda was to be left between the two. The plan also included a new outbuilding with a barn, latrine and sleeping quarters. It came to the riverside. The riverside side of the dwelling was lined with horizontal boarding as planned. The attic part was smooth. The four-pane windows were finished with a lily motif. The river side of the outbuilding was also designed with false windows with a similar framing to the residential windows. The lining of the old building on the west side of the site was also in plywood, but the windows were still six-paned and classically framed. The porch double door and the window above it are asymmetrically placed. The roof of the old west wing was boarded, while the riverside portion was entirely covered with clapboard. The exterior of the building was marked with a tiled roof.

There is a drawing from 1893 showing the points of departure from the plan approved in 1887. Apparently, the entire wing along the river was redesigned. The fuselage was made flat, so no connecting pier was needed. The angle between the buildings, according to this drawing, became straighter than the angle between the old buildings had been. Instead of a stove on the slab roof, a larger porch was built, which became a small separate kitchen.

In the 1906 modification drawing by Leonard Ahd, the angle between the buildings is realistically drawn quite sharp. The intention was to extend the dwelling by one room and to add two new kitchens and one new entrance to the courtyard. The small kitchen on the porch was now replaced by a better one. The outbuilding was also extended. The extension was also fitted with false windows, which now totalled five. An alteration drawing by M. Isaksson from 1927 shows the removal of the last room and one of the kitchens from the end of the dwelling house. Apparently this had never been done. In this drawing, the outbuilding is drawn even longer.

The Wähä-Krann residential building was altered in 1961. A basement was built and a central heating boiler was installed. The furnaces were demolished and the location of one of the kitchens was changed. Toilets were also installed in the three flats in the building. In 1965, a sauna and a craft room were added to the outbuilding row on the site, replacing one of the sheds and a latrine.

In 1980, the flats were combined, leaving one small and one larger flat. A bathroom was added to the larger flat. The sauna was renovated. In 1986, all the rooms were combined into one apartment.

Current situation

Residential building
Short-cornered residential building from the mid-19th century, horizontal timber-framed, saddle roof

Outbuilding
Clapboarded outbuilding: false windows on the river side

Gate and fence
Reconstructed in the style of the earlier types on the site.