Fullersta gård, Historic single-family detached home in Huddinge, Sweden.
Fullersta Gård stands as a well-preserved historic property featuring traditional Swedish architecture with wooden structures, gabled roofs, and Empire-style details including pilasters and a decorative frontispiece that showcase the building craftsmanship of the mid-19th century.
Originally formed in the 1650s when Åke Wrång consolidated several smaller farms into a manor estate, Fullersta Gård was later purchased by Patron Pehr Petterson in 1848, who renovated the main building in 1854 and developed it into a successful agricultural operation that contributed significantly to the regional economy.
Karin Boye was a writer, not a painter, and the room named after her keeps her own drawings, books and furniture. Upstairs a gallery shows permanent works by Peter Dahl and Ewert Karlsson (EWK), while the ground floor holds Spröd Stenugnsbageri, a stone-oven bakery. On the courtyard level stands Jörgen Hammar's sculpture "Asmunds häst" from 1999.
The art gallery and café occupy the main building and are open to the public on weekdays and at weekends. The manor lies in Sjödalen-Fullersta, close to Huddinge station, which Patron Pehr once secured for the estate; the commuter trains from Stockholm stop there. The 1854 layout was largely restored in the renovation completed in 2009.
Patron Pehr Pettersson gave land to Statens Järnvägar for free in exchange for a promise that a station be built outside his house, today's Huddinge station. He also helped reroute the road from Huddinge to Stockholm so farm produce could reach the capital more easily.
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