Protected building

Sepänkatu 1 entinen kuuromykkäinkoulu

Kuopio

Why visit

At the edge of a park, between Sepänkatu and Snellmaninkatu, stands the former school for the deaf, whose buildings form a sheltered closed courtyard at the heart of the plot. Senior architect Theodor Granstedt designed the ensemble.

Look for: Seek out the oldest building on the plot, Lieutenant Colonel Lennart Forstén's villa, converted into the director's residence beside the two-storey school and the dormitory.

About this site

The former school for the deaf and mute is located at the edge of the park on a plot between Sepänkatu and Snellmaninkatu. Chief Architect Theodor Granstedt designed the two buildings belonging to the school: the two-storey school building and the dormitory. The school building originally contained a ceremonial hall and sleeping halls.

The lower floor of the dormitory housed domestic service spaces and the upper floor a dormitory and the headmistress's flat. The oldest building on the plot, the villa of Lieutenant Colonel Lennart Forstén, was renovated as the director's residence. The buildings and the simultaneously completed storage building (originally a sauna and laundry building) form an enclosed courtyard in the centre of the plot.

Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish