Häkli, Lallukka and Co House in Vyborg, National Romantic style landmark in Vyborg, Russia.
The Häkli, Lallukka and Co House is a four-storey commercial and residential building completed in 1906 at the corner of Vokzalnaya Street and what was then Viskaalinkatu. Architect Allan Schulman clad the north and west facades in dark-red rough-hewn granite. The corner rises into tall pointed gables and pointed arches, set among asymmetrical balconies, bay windows and round, rectangular and slit-shaped openings.
The building was completed in 1906 for the trading company Häkli, Lallukka and Co., founded by commercial counsellor Juho Lallukka, who had lived in Vyborg since 1891 and took an active part in the design. Architect Allan Schulman gave it National Romantic forms; the Petersburg press praised it, and his devices influenced the development of northern modernism in Russian architecture. It burned during the Soviet-Finnish wars of 1939–1944, was restored by 1952, and a long reconstruction was completed in 2006.
The building is named after Juho Lallukka, a commercial counsellor who founded the Häkli, Lallukka and Co. trading company and lived with his family in a second-floor corner apartment. Since 2010 the former family apartment has housed the Wiipuri Artist Residency, furnished with Artek furniture and run by the Salmela Art Centre.
The building sits centrally on Vokzal'naja Street within easy walking distance from the railway station and main shopping areas. Visitors should explore the surrounding streets to grasp the broader architectural context of this period in the city.
The building's granite facades carry reliefs by sculptor Emil Halonen: six paired figures once flanked the main entrance and the courtyard gate. Three survive as museum pieces, and the statue "Peasant Woman" was returned to the house in 2018. Look for the restored carvings of hares, dogs, cats, mice and bats on the window surrounds.
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