The architect Marius Af Schultén decided at the time that the building did not need to be protected, as it did not fit in with the buildings surrounding it. The architect Woldemar Baeckman made a design for an eight-story commercial building to be built in place of Domus Litonii, and an investigation about whether to protect the building was made in 1962. In the 1960s, the owners of Domus Litonii made thorough investigations about the possible reuse of the lot which had grown immensely valuable. In 1957 the nine-story commercial building of the Jusélius foundation was constructed on the other side of the building at Aleksanterinkatu 48, and thus Domus Litonii became the last building in the city centre to remind of the city architecture in the 19th century. In 1955, part of the bazaar wing and the courtyard building were dismantled to make room for the Rautatalo building constructed nearby. The attic and third floor of the building were badly damaged during the bombing of Helsinki in 1944, when the building was hit by two incendiary bombs and one mine bomb. During the renovation, the main building became almost completely a commercial building.
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The facade on Aleksanterinkatu was modernised in 1936 and its shop windows were enlarged. It contained 12 business spaces for shops. The wing was designed by the architect Valter Jung and completed in March 1929. This gave 7 metres more space to the Litonius family, so they decided to construct a lower bazaar wing on the lot. Īs the Keskuskatu street was constructed, the Ekberg house next to Domus Litonii was dismantled. Saarinen made plans for Keskuskatu and buildings to be constructed on it in 1916 and the city council approved the plans on 6 March 1917. The company also offered to buy out Domus Litonii, but its owners refused the offer. The businessman Allan Hjelt and the architect Eliel Saarinen started the project through their company Oy Centralgatan Ab in 1916 by buying out the properties on Aleksanterinkatu 52 and Pohjoinen Esplanadikatu 37-41. Plans to construct the Keskuskatu street through the block to help traffic between the Esplanadi park and the Helsinki Central railway station were started in the 1910s. The telephone number 72 was assigned to one of the building's tenants, the accessor C. It received its first telephone line in 1882. The building was joined to the city's waterworks in 1879 and to the city's sewer works in 1880.
Lohman was built in its courtyard in 1877, and later dismantled in 1955 to make room for the Rautatalo building. A two-story residential building designed by H. The building was thoroughly renovated and repaired from the inside after the Polytechnic School moved out of it to its own premises. As the school's functions continuously expanded, it moved to its own premises to a new building near the Hietalahdentori market square in 1877. After Jonas Litonius's furniture factory closed down in 1858 the industrial premises on the courtyard were also rented to the school. The school rented the entire first floor of the building and three rooms in the cellar. įrom 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 general waterworks in Helsinki were only built in the 1870s. 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. There was also an underground cellar with 13 vaulted rooms for various purposes.
The first floor had 12 living rooms and three kitchens, and the second floor had 15 living rooms. It was 35 metres wide and over 18 metres high. When the building was completed on 3 December 1847 it was one of the largest private houses in the entire capital area of Finland. The bazaar wing with its large windows and the baluster railings on its roof represents the modern business architecture typical to the 1920s. Its facade is classically simplified and typical of its period, and for example the decorations in the windows vary greatly between the floors. Domus Litonii is a residential and commercial building representing the typical late Empire architecture in Helsinki.
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