Protected building

Rantakatu 3 (ent. Oulun yliopiston arkkitehtuurin osasto)

Oulu

Why visit

A stone building from 1884 in the row of merchant houses along Rantakatu, raised by Consul J.F. Svendelin, it has held many lives: a school since 1888 and the architecture department of the University of Oulu until 2017.

Look for: Notice the storeys of the neo-Renaissance house: originally two floors, a third was added on the Pakkahuoneenkatu side in the 1920s.

About this site

The stone building along Rantakatu's row of merchants' houses, commissioned by Consul J.F. Svndelin, dates from 1884. Several schools have been housed in the building since 1888, and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Oulu until 2017. A third storey was added to the originally two-storey Neo-Renaissance building in the 1920s on the Pakkahuoneenkatu side.

The former lyceum gymnasium building, which served as the drawing hall of the University of Oulu's architecture department, dates from 1895 (J. Tötterström).

Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish