Wähä-Sepp

History

According to the annex to the 1756 status map: the plot called Sepä belonged to Henrik Stengrund and the other piece of land belonged to Berger. In 1800, plot 212 was owned by the patron Erik Matinpoika. He had a field for sowing barley. He was entered in the tax list as a pauper.

Fire insurances

The property was owned by Johan Fredrik Lindegren, a cantor, who took a fire insurance for the buildings in 1876. There were two buildings on the plot. The main building was located on the western boundary of the plot, facing Kiviniemenkatu, and the outbuilding was located on the northern side of the plot, also facing Kiviniemenkatu.

The main building was recently built of new logs and was unplanked and unpainted. The roof was made of boards. There were four rooms: a hall, two chambers, a kitchen and a boarded porch. There were three tiled stoves and an iron stove in the kitchen. At the base of the building was a semi-detached house with an additional chamber at one end.

The outside building was old, unplanked and unpainted. It had a chamber, a parlour, a dormitory, a wooden shed, a stable and a barn. The building had a tiled stove and a stove with a baking oven. There was also a separate toilet on the property. The driveway and the fence surrounding the plot were also insured.

In 1888, a new insurance policy was taken on. The house was owned by the tailor Karl Gustaf Nyberg and had undergone repairs which made it necessary to reassess the buildings. The dwelling was lined and painted with oil paint, with a brick roof. The second building was also boarded and painted with water paint, with a tiled roof. There was a pantry, a baker’s, a granary, a wooden shed and a barn.

Modification drafts

The modification drawing by Arvi Leikari dates from 1912. It concerned a residential and outbuilding that had been located on the northern boundary of the plot. There was another building on the western boundary of the plot, which was in residential use. The residential part needed to be slightly altered. The dwelling was to have two rooms, a kitchen and a hallway. Possibly the floor area of the dwelling was slightly increased. A brick firewall was used to separate the residential and the outbuilding. The outbuilding had a log-built cattle shed and three board sheds. The toilet was moved from the side of the second dwelling to the side of the outbuilding. The street end of the building was given an Art Nouveau look.

In 1932, there is an alteration drawing for another residential building. The building has two large rooms, a small kitchen between them and a small pantry at one end. Now the kitchen was to be moved to one of the large rooms and the former kitchen was to be converted into a bedroom. Previously there had been a small board porch at the front of the building. Now it was extended and a porch was added in front of the small room that would become a separate apartment.

The buildings on the site were demolished under the road plan, and the site remained undeveloped for a couple of decades. In 1996, Jouni Sjöman designed a new residential building on the site.

Current situation

Residential building
New building from the 1990s (Jouni Sjöblom)

Gate
From the 1990s.