Wälkklä

History

Wälkklä was owned in 1756 by a person named Långström and in 1800 by the bourgeois Daniel Frimodig. He owned a large barrel of arable land, two riverside fences and part of a ship.

Modification drafts

The residential building on the Vähämalminkatu side has a modification drawing from 1912 by Maurus Isaksson. It was a small building with a room, hall and kitchen. Next to the building was a small, low log building and next to it another small building and a slightly larger one. The residential building was extended. The façade was rendered in horizontal brickwork and the window frames were modestly neo-renaissance and art nouveau. The windows were six-paned. The roof was partially gabled. The gate and fence of the property were traditional, high, rather simple. The upper part of the gateway had vertical planking on the horizontal part. The entrance gate was treated in the same way. The fence had a top and bottom rail and a central horizontal rail.

In 1936, the buildings were extensively renovated and extensions were added.  The building on the Isomalminkatu side grew to the full length of the plot. It now had two living rooms, a kitchen and two hallways. The sloping corner of the building was used for the kitchen closets. The outbuildings, toilets and wood sheds were added in a row, which was built together with the residential building. To provide access to the wood shelters, a separate, windowed, building-wide corridor was made. The exterior part of the building had a brick wall against the neighbouring property. The appearance of the residential wing was changed to the current one, with clapboarded facades and wide nine-paned windows. A sloping section was added to the second dwelling, with an entrance hall and a stove room. The design was by Kaino Kari.

In 1951, part of the outbuilding wing was attached to the bedroom of the dwelling on the Isomalminkatu side of the building. A toilet was added to the three-room, kitchen apartment. In 1973, the woodshed and privy in the courtyard wing were converted into a sauna. The premises of the building on the south side were converted into a two-room and kitchen apartment.  In 1975, it was decided to change the sauna rooms and to dismantle the old fireplaces.

In 1980, the premises of both buildings were renovated and converted. The three rooms and kitchen in the building facing Isomalminkatu were rearranged in the washroom, kitchen and anterooms. The former sauna was replaced by a carport. The residential building on the side of Eteläpitkäkatu was converted into a sauna room with a fireplace. A beautiful new gate was built on the plot.

Current situation

Residential building facing Vähämalminkatu
The current building dates from 1936 (Kaino Kari), when the building was extended and raised, with a roof lining

Residential building facing Eteläpitkäkatu
Apparently from the 1870s, with a panelling and horizontal boarding

Exterior building
Cement brick

Gate and fence
New, early 1980s.