Protected building

Kajaanin rautatieasema-alue

Kajaani

Why visit

Kajaani's Art Nouveau station is a rarity: it was designed, unusually, by the architect Gustaf Nyström rather than the railway board's own staff. The two-storey building from 1904–1905 invites you to pause within its station park.

Look for: Notice the shingle-patterned façades along with the window arrangement and the building's massing — all characteristic of the Art Nouveau era. Around it spreads a station park of dwelling and outbuildings.

About this site

Kajaani's Jugend-style railway station building was designed by the exceptional architect Gustaf Nyström, not by the railway administration's own architectural planning office. The station building, constructed in 1904–1905, is two-storey; its volume, window arrangement and board-profiled facades are characteristic of Jugend-era architecture. The station building is surrounded by a station park with a diverse building stock of residential and outbuildings.

Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish