Back in the early 1930’s a large tuberculosis sanatorium was built by a river. When tuberculosis was eradicated in Finland, it expanded into other lung patients and patients with rheumatism. It was closed down in the early 1990’s.
Luckily enough the beautiful building escaped the fate of this tuberculosis sanatorium. It has since become a nursing home and is in full use.
However I received a tip, that the hospital staff apartments from 1959 looked abandoned.
And the covered windows prove the tip right.
There were three identical buildings. Here are the other two.
The first building had probably been used for something else than staff apartments, as the emergency stairs had been rebuilt. The camera doesn’t look very tempting.
All the buildings had originally been identical. Here are the final two.
They seem very much abandoned.
Building number two.
I wonder, when somebody last answered the door.
The back of the house facing the river.
The first house. A corner of the main hospital can be seen in the background.
Moving on behind the third house.
The fourth house was smaller and different. It probably housed higher ranking hospital staff, as there was a strict hierarchy.
The entrance to the third house. There seemed to be two more apartments here than in the previous building.
But there was also an open door. The downstairs doesn’t look too tempting, so let’s head up.
The ground floor corridor.
Well, that’s not a functioning excuse.
Moving further down the corridor.
Time to enter the first apartment.
There was a small kitchen.
Which hadn’t seen renovations in ages.
The toilet has received tiles at some point, but the bright red plastic floor looks decades old.
The other room of the apartment. The lamp is hanging pretty low.
A look back towards the kitchen with something interesting hanging on the wall.
A free bucket. Finns are always so fond of them.
The access to the balcony was blocked. Notice the all too familiar hexagonal tiles.
Let’s move on deeper!