street: Strandgatan

Byggnadshistoria

Byggnaderna år 1834 enligt brandförsäkringsbrevet och planteckningen längre ner var.

1. En träbyggnad af furu timmer i godt stånd af nytt timmer uppförd år 1804 af 2 våningar brädfodrad år 1824 och sedermera med nytt grantimmer tillbyggd år 1833. Målad med dels olje och dels rödfärg. Bestående av 8 rum i nedre våningen

Ägare och invånare

Ägare enligt brandförsäkringsbreven

1834-1840
Gottfrid Starcke äger gården

1846-1856
Gården har övertagits av herr handelsmannen H.O Fontell

1861-1866
Handlanden Carl Emil Carlström

1891
Kommerseråde Carl Emil Carlströms arvingar

During the troubled times of 1914-1920, this house was owned by the “Socialist Association Torppa”. Before the Civil War until the capture of the city in January 1918, Torppa was the Red Guards’ meeting place and gathering place (source Lasse Backlund).

Building history

The house in the picture, on the right after the plank, was built in 1801 according to the fire insurance policy. It is said that the house would have been demolished around the 1920s and the current house would have been built on the same site. The house is now taller and has a higher stone base than in the photograph, while the window division is the same.

At the bottom of the page we have a building plan for the fireplace alteration, and extension, of the then existing building. In the picture below we have marked how the old house is extended to the east, and the stone base is raised (not uncommon for the stone base to be rebuilt on a house). The pink colors suggest changes. It is less clear whether the house is also raised upwards, but it seems so. The house being rebuilt is certainly the house from 1801.

According to this, it seems clear that the old house was not demolished, but rebuilt into the house that stands here today. Or at least we can safely say that this was planned with this building plan, which was also approved. It is still conceivable that the plans were changed and the house was demolished anyway.

Huvudbyggnadens historia kan delas in i två skeden enligt brandförsäkringsbreven: i det första skedet bestod huset av endast södra hälften där stadens tullkammare var inhyst. Detta hus uppfördes 1819, brädfodrades 1824 och var vid ingången av år 1834 målat med brun oljefärg, storleken uppgick till 18 x 9,9 x 9 meter under tak av näver, rummen var 6 till antalet omfattande 1 sal, 3 kamrar och en farstu med tillsammans 4 kakelugnar med “bildhuggerier” och oljemålning samt 1 köksspis med bakugn. På vinden fanns en skild kammare med kakelugn av tegel.

2 rum var 1834 försedda med franska vattenfärgade tapeter och 2 bemålade med vattenfärg direkt på den klinade stockväggen (det ena måste ha varit den sal med pilastrar i grått och gult målade direkt på väggen , vilket syntes vid renoveringen i slutet av 80-talet, se bilden.)

Norra delen av huset och de ursprungliga farstukvistarna uppfördes 1842, då tillkom en huskropp med längden 14,7 meter och samtidigt försågs hela huset med tak av profilerade bräder. Den nya delen av huset omfattade 5 rum: 3 kammare, 1 farstu och 1 bagarstuga med tillsammans 4 kakelugnar och en bakugn med spis. Tre rum försedda med franska tapeter.

I försäkringsbrevet daterat 5.9.1883 uppger Charles Uno Nordlund (som senare började med telefonbolag) att antalet rum uppgick till 13 st med tillsammans 9 kakelugnar, 2 köksspisar och 1 bakugn, huvudbyggnaden är försedd med pärttak och målad med ljus oljefärg. Uthusbyggnaden vid tomtens norra sida uppges ha varit uppförd 1828, till en del bärdfodrad och målad under pärttak , storleken uppgående till 41,40 x 7 x 6 meter och omfattande 1 magasin, 1 vagnslider, 1 stall, avträde med dyngstad, fähus, förstuga, foderlada, och vedlider.

I tomtens östra ända uppges dessutom finnas en 1883 uppförd destillationsbyggnad (se ritning) under tak av asfaltfilt med storleken 12 x 6 x 6 meter och omfattande 3 rum, varav 1 boningsrum med kakelugn, 1 kallreningsrum med vattenledning och 1 destillationsrum. Huset uppges ha rappade väggar.

Inkörsporten var målad med oljefärg och trädgården försedd med 9 stora, lummiga, ädla lövträd. Huvudbyggnaden försågs med nyrenässansinredning i slutet av 1800-talet liksom rundbågade verandafönster vid samma tid.

Text: Förslag till förbättring av stadsbilden: Strandgatan mellan Salutorget och Kolargränden, Wenman Niklas, Talotuuma, 1996

The city’s pharmacy operated in this building for almost a hundred years (1836-1930). The house almost burned down three times when serious fires occurred in the pharmacy’s laboratory. The house has been in the current owner’s family for 128 years so far.

Conrad Berggårdh’s book Kristinestads apotek och dess innehavare under 150 år (1786-1936), published in 1936, describes the pharmacy’s operations:

Carl Gustavf Thodén bought the house N:o 170 in the IV block at Strandgatan and turned it into a pharmacy. The pharmacy was thus located on the street that was an entrance to the town centre from the north. The pharmacy probably had two large and one smaller room on the north side of the building. Less than a year after Thodén received the privilege of the pharmacy in Kristinestad, he passed away at the age of 27.

The pharmacy was taken over in 1837 by Fredrik Wilhelm Jurvelius, a relative of Thodén, and he bought the house in 1839 from the widow Thodén. In 1846 the building almost burned down. The fire had started in the laboratory when distilling spirits (which was not an uncommon cause of fire in pharmacies).

The pharmacy was bought in 1882 by pharmacist Karl Albert Dahlin for 50,000 marks.

In the spring of 1890, Dahlin sold the pharmacy and the building to pharmacist Emil Reims for 115,000 Finnish marks, so that the pharmacy was valued at 100,000 and the house and plot at 15,000 marks.

Henrik Johannes Sandlund bought the pharmacy and house in 1895 for 142,000 Finnish marks (pharmacy 125,000, house and plot 15,000) and Dahlin’s villa in Korkeasaari 2,000 marks (Solhem villa, as well as the pharmacy building, is still in the family in 2023, 128 years and counting). During his time, the third threatening fire in the pharmacy occurred when Provisor Rafael Olin, a laboratory technician at the pharmacy, was busy preparing phosphorus, when the phosphorus ignited and set the room ablaze. Olin’s work coat also caught fire and he ran at record speed to the beach about 100 metres away and threw himself into the water. Curiously, Olin, like Sourander who played the main role in the fire during Jurvelius’ time, also bought the First Pharmacy in Pori.

He was the owner of the pharmacy until 1926, when it passed to his eldest son Ernst Sandlund.

According to Berggårdh in the book, Strandgatan was sidelined after the “long bridge” was built over Norrfjärden and therefore Ernst moved the pharmacy to the upper square in 1930.

Building history

The building history of the pharamcy house is described in the insurance letters from 1867 and 1902; the letter from 1867 is more detailed and essentially corresponds to the one from 1902.
Buildings 1-5 in the plan below were in 1867 as follows:

1. Main building constructed of new timber in 1819, panelled and painted with yellow oil paint under a shingled roof (replaced with asphalt felt before 1902). The length towards the street is 28.50 metres, the width is 9.80 metres and the average height is 9.80 metres. In 1867 there was no glass veranda facing the courtyard, which means that it was built later in the 19th century and the entrance to the house was via the external staircase that is now located north of the veranda. There are 11 rooms with a total of 9 tiled stoves and a kitchen stove, while in 1902 the number was increased to 13 rooms (one of which was a pharmacy) with a total of 12 tiled stoves and a kitchen stove (in addition to an attic room with a tiled stove).
2. At an angle to the main building and connected to it by a terrace-like staircase, a combined residential and storehouse building, built in 1819 for the residential part and 1822 for the storehouse, size 25.3 x 6.7 x 6.7 metres, boarded and painted with yellow oil paint under a shingled roof. There were 5 living rooms with a total of 3 tiled stoves and a kitchen stove, while the storehouse had three compartments.
3. This house is partly built in 1828, partly in 1845, measuring 21.2 x 5.2 x 6.7 metres, boarded under a beaded roof and painted with yellow oil paint. The house comprised a combined farmhouse and bakehouse, a chamber and a laboratory (with a brick floor), the rooms containing a total of 2 tiled stoves, 1 large baking oven and a large stove in the laboratory.
4. Finally, closest to the shore is an ice cellar built of timber in 1864 with double log walls and the space between filled with sawdust and coal dust. It measures 13 x 5.8 x 6.3 metres, is painted in yellow oil paint and has a beaded roof.
5. Along the south side is a long outbuilding built in 1819, boarded and painted with yellow oil paint under a shingled roof. In 1867 the house was recorded as 37.3 metres in length, 5.5 metres in width and 5.2 metres in height and comprised a shack with a vestibule, a hay barn, a storehouse, a dunghill, a stable and a shed. By 1902 this outbuilding had grown to 64.3 metres in length and comprised an arched stone cellar, a wood shed, a stable, an outhouse with a dunghill, a shack with a vestibule and a feed barn, 3 store rooms, a wagon shed and a boathouse (the latter demolished in 1992-93).

The entrance gate was painted with light oil paint and the height of the garden fence was 1.5 metres and was painted with yellow paint. Towards the waterline there was a large landing bridge for boats.

Plots 171 and 172 have been merged at least since 1864. The insurance policy dated 7 September 1864 mentions the original main building from 1838, which burned down in the 1880s and was replaced by the current main building from 1897. Of interest is that the original main building must have been a High Empire house painted with white oil paint and with a tiled roof, the proportions of the house were also of the Empire type, with external dimensions of 19.2 x 10.8 metres and a height of 9.5 metres and comprising 7 rooms and a kitchen. In 1864, all the outbuildings were also yellow, painted with yellow cooking paint, as was the fence, while the gate was painted with white oil paint.

The current main building was built by the merchant and sea captain Johan Wilhelm Olin, who insured the farm in 1898 (1908) and at that time there was a photography studio in the centre of plot 171. According to Lasse Backlund, the house was moved from Östra Långgatan, when the new church was to be built, 40 years after it survived the great fire of 1859 that ravaged the neighbourhood around the church. Read more about Salins gård, number 34A, in De gamla gårdarna, Ett försvunnet kvarter i stadens centrum, Nystén Lilly.

In the following insurance policy dated 15 January 1920, when the farm was owned by the merchant K.L. Saari, the plot had undergone a number of changes which resulted in the farm in its present form.

According to the latter insurance policy, the farm was built as follows:

1. The main building on Strandgatan, built in 1897, boarded and painted with oil colour and with a tin roof. Size 22.50 x 10.50, with an average height of 9.50 metres. The house includes 11 rooms with a total of 8 tiled stoves and two kitchen stoves as well as two verandas measuring 3×3 metres and 3.5 metres in height.
2. At an angle to the main building on the north side of the plot, a residential building built in 1838 and 1939 and rebuilt in 1919, boarded but still unpainted, measuring 10 x 5.34 metres and 5.64 metres high. In its original form, the house included a baker’s hut and a fruit room with a baking oven and a tiled stove, but after the reconstruction it became 4 rooms with a total of two tiled stoves and a kitchen stove and a veranda 3 x 2.8, with a height of 3 metres.
3. Economy building built in 1838 and 1839, boarded and red painted with asphalt felt roof. Measuring 35 x 5.34 metres and with a height of 5.64 metres, it comprises two two-storey warehouses, two firewood sheds, stables, cattle shed, feed barn, outhouse and dunghill.
4. At the far eastern end of the site a residential building built in 1919 with a beaded roof, still unpainted. Measuring 8.6 x 6.6 metres with a height of 6.8 metres and comprising 2 living rooms with 1 kitchen stove with baking oven and walled-in pot and a sheet metal stove.

There were also two buildings in the centre of the plot which are now gone – an 1892 tool shed (the former photographer’s studio) made of timber and boards and an earth cellar with a turf roof.
The entrance gate and plank (18 metres long and 2 metres high) were painted with oil paint.