Welcome to yet another familiar location. This time I am at the former mental asylum featured a couple of times earlier. The main building was demolished back in 2021, but this protected 1924’s older building remained. It had been looking for new use for years. Even the old service building was still remaining. It probablyContinue reading “Still Waiting For New Ideas”
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Disrespecting Their History
The following location was on a cape in Kuusamo. Originally it had been a children’s hospital completed in 1944. The withdrawing Germans destroyed the building apart from its external walls. It became a regional hospital and then again a children’s hospital until 1950. After that it became a child care unit until 1974 and aContinue reading “Disrespecting Their History”
Embraced By Fjelds Part III
This is the upstairs corridor. It is very similar to the one downstairs. There was a window at the end of the corridor. The views are still spectacular. And just like downstairs there was a tiny kitchen. There was also a toilet and a shower. These were located a bit differently than downstairs. The firstContinue reading “Embraced By Fjelds Part III”
Embraced By Fjelds Part II
Right next to the main entrance was this beautiful room with a fireplace. This probably was the common room of the institution. The fireplace was simple, yet stylish. A look backwards. The common room was followed by a short corridor. The kitchen of the institution was to the left of it. There was a smallContinue reading “Embraced By Fjelds Part II”
Embraced By Fjelds Part I
Some posts back I explained the concept of municipal homes and the fact that they usually are located in very remote places. This story is no different. The municipal home was actually built in 1927, but was destroyed by fire already back in 1929. The construction of a new building was started in 1948 onContinue reading “Embraced By Fjelds Part I”
Making Way For Apartments
This here is a former hospital. Built originally in 1937 and enlarged in 1962 it first was a large regional hospital and after 1988 the city hospital in the area. It later served as an ordinary clinic and was abandoned in 2018 after air quality problems arose. Since 2018 it has been planned to demolishContinue reading “Making Way For Apartments”
The Concept Of Municipal Homes Explained
In several posts from the summer of 2022 and even from before that, I’ve mentioned the concept municipal home. It comes from the history. Even before the Finnish welfare state, there were houses, where in general everybody, who couldn’t live on their own or with relatives were placed: the elderly, the disabled and the mentallyContinue reading “The Concept Of Municipal Homes Explained”
I Prefer This Over Coffee Part X
The dressing room was large, but featured lots of lockers. It was important to wash hands, it seems. What is a baby doll doing in the sink of a nursing home? “It’s nice to be a pig”. Well, we all have opinions. A toilet. I believe that this has been the common kitchen of theContinue reading “I Prefer This Over Coffee Part X”
I Prefer This Over Coffee Part IX
The staff apartment corridor. And yeah, those really do look like apartment doors. For some reason their last use has had something to do with the wards in the newer wings of the house. The story goes on in here. So a storage room with seasonal decorations it is. A coat of arms. Always whenContinue reading “I Prefer This Over Coffee Part IX”
I Prefer This Over Coffee Part VI
The next place to explore was the kitchen. The funny thing was, that it was located pretty far away from what I believe was the dining room, which was on the opposide site of the building. The kitchen was facing the front yard and the large cow shed. Back when the place was built, municipalContinue reading “I Prefer This Over Coffee Part VI”