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
- Municipality
- Kuopio