Protected building

Kuopio Governor Palace

Kuopio

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The county administration building and land survey office of Kuopio County, completed in 1882, was designed under architect Constantin Kiseleff's direction at the Board of Public Buildings. The county building is a two-storey Neo-Renaissance stone building. At both ends of the main building, on the sides of the plot, a building for the land survey office and an outbuilding were constructed. The side buildings were raised by one storey and extended in 1914. The land survey office was expanded with an addition in 1931.

Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish

The Kuopio Governor Palace or State Provincial Office of Kuopio is a former government building in Kuopio, Finland, located in the Väinölänniemi district on the Hallituskatu street in the immediate vicinity of Kuopionlahti and Väinölänniemi parks. It was designed by architect Konstantin Kiseleff, who completed the building plan in 1882. The staff of the Administrative Board of the Kuopio Province moved into the building in 1885. It represents the architectural style of the Neo-Renaissance. The building is fully protected from both the outside and inside. The building is owned by the state-owned company Senate Properties and houses the office of the Regional State Administrative Agency for Eastern Finland.

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Municipality: Kuopio

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