About this site
The first governor's residence was built beside the square as early as the beginning of the 1780s. The building was destroyed by fire in 1831; a new building was placed on the old stone foundation. The county administrative building was completed in 1837 to drawings made by superintendent Carl Ludvig Engel in 1832. The three-storey, rendered, Empire-style stone building forms an axis of administrative buildings together with the later-built Town Hall across the street. The county building's wing was extended in 1872 (A.H. Dahlström and L.I. Lindqvist) and again in 1897. In the latter year the staircase tower on the courtyard facade was also built. The building was restored in the early 1990s according to a plan drawn up by Professor Vilhelm Helander.
Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish
- Municipality
- Hämeenlinna