{"id":8317,"date":"2023-03-08T19:13:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T19:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krsdigiarc.com\/building\/287-2-250-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T16:08:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T16:08:47","slug":"287-2-250-2023","status":"publish","type":"building","link":"https:\/\/krsdigiarc.com\/en\/building\/287-2-250-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The old pharmacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conrad Bergg\u00e5rdh’s book Kristinestads apotek och dess innehavare under 150 \u00e5r (1786-1936)<\/em>, published in 1936, describes the pharmacy’s operations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carl Gustavf Thod\u00e9n 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 Thod\u00e9n received the privilege of the pharmacy in Kristinestad, he passed away at the age of 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pharmacy was taken over in 1837 by Fredrik Wilhelm Jurvelius, a relative of Thod\u00e9n, and he bought the house in 1839 from the widow Thod\u00e9n. 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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pharmacy was bought in 1882 by pharmacist Karl Albert Dahlin for 50,000 marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was the owner of the pharmacy until 1926, when it passed to his eldest son Ernst Sandlund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Bergg\u00e5rdh in the book, Strandgatan was sidelined after the “long bridge” was built over Norrfj\u00e4rden and therefore Ernst moved the pharmacy to the upper square in 1930.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Apoteksinteri\u00f6ren fr\u00e5n \u00e5r 1910 eller 1909. Ivar Ellfolk, Carl Wahlberg, Carl Sundstr\u00f6m och Rafael Olin. Ur Ulla-Carita Lehtinens album). Bilden \u00e4ven i Kristinestads apotek och dess innehavare under 150 \u00e5r (1786-1936)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Delf\u00f6rstorning av titelbilden. Denna ryska kejserliga dubbel\u00f6rn h\u00f6gg kosacker itu under revolutionen 1917 n\u00e4r de red f\u00f6rbi, enligt ber\u00e4ttelse, ber\u00e4ttad av nuvarande \u00e4gares farmor Margit, dotter till Henrik Sandlund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ernst Sandlunds huvudv\u00e4rkspulver, dock fr\u00e5n tiden efter flytten av apoteket till torgh\u00f6rnet. Bild: Kerttu Laurila<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Building history<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  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).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  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).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    St\u00e4dernas allm\u00e4nna brandstods-bolags f\u00f6rs\u00e4kringsbrev N:o 6577<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Planteckning af \u00e5byggnadernas l\u00e4ge \u00e5 Herr Apothekaren, Kollegii asessoren Fredrik Wilhelm Jurvelius egande g\u00e5rden N:o 170 i Fjerde kvarteret af Kristinestad samt dertill gr\u00e4nsande hus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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    Ritning till uthusbyggnad \u00e5 tomten N:o 170 i 4de kvarteret av Kristinestads gamla plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Harjoitusty\u00f6, Aalto yliopisto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Owners and residents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    1836<\/strong>
    Carl Gustaf Thod\u00e9n
    1837<\/strong>
    Pharmacist, Collegii assessor     Fredrik Wilhelm Jurvelius <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1882 <\/strong>
    Pharmacist Karl Albert Dahlin
    1890<\/strong>
    Pharmacist Emil Reims<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1895<\/strong>
    Pharmacist Henrik Johannes Sandlund<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1926<\/strong>
    Ernst Sandlund<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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