Protected building

Lappeen tuomiokunnan kanslia ja käräjätalo (Komendantin talo)

Lappeenranta

Why visit

On the edge of Lappeenranta fortress square stands the house completed in the 1770s as the fortress commandant's residence — the area's most distinguished building, now home to the South Karelia Museum.

Look for: Look for the Neoclassical touches on this single-storey rendered brick house at Kristiinankatu 9.

About this site

The building was completed in the 1770s as the commandant's house in Lappeenranta Fortress. The most representative building in the area was erected beside the fortress square. The single-storey rendered brick house has neoclassical stylistic features. Kristiinankatu 9 houses office spaces for the South Karelia Museum.

Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish