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Domus Litonii
Domus Litonii (Latin for "the Litonius house") is a three-story Empire style residential, commercial and office building with a lower bazaar wing located at Aleksanterinkatu 50 in central Helsinki, Finland.[citation needed]
The building was designed by the master builder Gustaf Leander and it was built from 1845 to 1847. Garden wings were added in 1877 and 1880, and a lower bazaar wing designed by the architect Valter Jung was added on the Keskuskatu side in 1929. The facade on Aleksanterinkatu was modernised in 1936.
The building was commissioned by the master draper and furniture manufacturer Jonas Litonius (1810 - 1864), and the Litonius family continues to own and live in the building to this day. The building is the only remaining 19th century residential building in the entire centre of Helsinki.
The building is protected by construction law, and it has undergone basic repairs from 1993 to 2003.
Domus Litonii is a residential and commercial building representing the typical late Empire architecture in Helsinki. Its facade is classically simplified and typical of its period, and for example the decorations in the windows vary greatly between the floors. The bazaar wing with its large windows and the baluster railings on its roof represents the modern business architecture typical to the 1920s.
When the building was completed on 3 December 1847 it was one of the largest private houses in the entire capital area of Finland. It was 35 metres wide and over 18 metres high. The first floor had 12 living rooms and three kitchens, and the second floor had 15 living rooms. There was also an underground cellar with 13 vaulted rooms for various purposes. Exceptionally for the time, the building also had its own running water, with a leaded pipe drawing water from a well in the middle of the cellar floor to the kitchens on the living floors. The general waterworks in Helsinki were only built in the 1870s.
From September 1848 to June 1877 Domus Litonii hosted the Technical Real School of Helsinki, later renamed to the Polytechnic School, which was the predecessor of the Helsinki University of Technology. The school rented the entire first floor of the building and three rooms in the cellar. After Jonas Litonius's furniture factory closed down in 1858 the industrial premises on the courtyard were also rented to the school. As the school's functions continuously expanded, it moved to its own premises to a new building near the Hietalahdentori market square in 1877.
The building was thoroughly renovated and repaired from the inside after the Polytechnic School moved out of it to its own premises. A two-story residential building designed by H. E. Lohman was built in its courtyard in 1877, and later dismantled in 1955 to make room for the Rautatalo building. The building was joined to the city's waterworks in 1879 and to the city's sewer works in 1880. It received its first telephone line in 1882. The telephone number 72 was assigned to one of the building's tenants, the accessor C. J. Wiklund.
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Domus Litonii
Domus Litonii (Latin for "the Litonius house") is a three-story Empire style residential, commercial and office building with a lower bazaar wing located at Aleksanterinkatu 50 in central Helsinki, Finland.[citation needed]
The building was designed by the master builder Gustaf Leander and it was built from 1845 to 1847. Garden wings were added in 1877 and 1880, and a lower bazaar wing designed by the architect Valter Jung was added on the Keskuskatu side in 1929. The facade on Aleksanterinkatu was modernised in 1936.
The building was commissioned by the master draper and furniture manufacturer Jonas Litonius (1810 - 1864), and the Litonius family continues to own and live in the building to this day. The building is the only remaining 19th century residential building in the entire centre of Helsinki.
The building is protected by construction law, and it has undergone basic repairs from 1993 to 2003.
Domus Litonii is a residential and commercial building representing the typical late Empire architecture in Helsinki. Its facade is classically simplified and typical of its period, and for example the decorations in the windows vary greatly between the floors. The bazaar wing with its large windows and the baluster railings on its roof represents the modern business architecture typical to the 1920s.
When the building was completed on 3 December 1847 it was one of the largest private houses in the entire capital area of Finland. It was 35 metres wide and over 18 metres high. The first floor had 12 living rooms and three kitchens, and the second floor had 15 living rooms. There was also an underground cellar with 13 vaulted rooms for various purposes. Exceptionally for the time, the building also had its own running water, with a leaded pipe drawing water from a well in the middle of the cellar floor to the kitchens on the living floors. The general waterworks in Helsinki were only built in the 1870s.
From September 1848 to June 1877 Domus Litonii hosted the Technical Real School of Helsinki, later renamed to the Polytechnic School, which was the predecessor of the Helsinki University of Technology. The school rented the entire first floor of the building and three rooms in the cellar. After Jonas Litonius's furniture factory closed down in 1858 the industrial premises on the courtyard were also rented to the school. As the school's functions continuously expanded, it moved to its own premises to a new building near the Hietalahdentori market square in 1877.
The building was thoroughly renovated and repaired from the inside after the Polytechnic School moved out of it to its own premises. A two-story residential building designed by H. E. Lohman was built in its courtyard in 1877, and later dismantled in 1955 to make room for the Rautatalo building. The building was joined to the city's waterworks in 1879 and to the city's sewer works in 1880. It received its first telephone line in 1882. The telephone number 72 was assigned to one of the building's tenants, the accessor C. J. Wiklund.