Gullön kartano (Gullö gård)

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

Gullö manor, located along an old shipping route, is a small-scale, harmonious ensemble in its landscape and building stock. The manor landscape has a long historical continuity with its cultivated fields and the oak groves that bound them. The main building is a representative manor house of the Gustavian period, and its surroundings include a park with numerous tree avenues.

Gullö manor lies in the inner archipelago, in the middle of cultivated fields. The Gustavian interior of the two-storey main building with a hip roof is well preserved. The facades have been altered to some extent in later repairs.

Near the main building stands a mansard-roofed pehtoori's residence. The area also contains residential buildings constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose exteriors were renovated in the early 20th century, as well as outbuildings constructed in the 19th century. In the seaside landscape are the manor's bathhouse and a shore granary storehouse (ranta-aitta), which is apparently from the 1850s and is the only surviving building of the telegraph chain that once covered the entire coast of Finland.

The oak woodlands bordering the manor's fields have been protected as a nature conservation area.

History

Gullö was a rälssitila from around the middle of the 16th century and was considered one of the possible sites for the town of Tammisaari. Later, Gullö was one of the loading places for ocean-going sailing ships and one of the shipbuilding areas of Tammisaari. The estate, which was converted into a säterirustholli in 1691, was in noble ownership until the early 19th century. At its greatest extent, the manor had eight crofts in various parts of the islands of Gullö and Degerö.

The manor's oldest residential building was located east of the present main building, near the shore. The present main building was completed in 1763. The ground-floor windows were renewed in the early 20th century, when a garden-side porch and Art Nouveau details were also added to the log-framed building.

The small waterside granary storehouse of Gullö manor was moved into place in the 1860s. The granary was originally an optical telegraph building, built by the Russians during the Crimean War in the 1850s, at Bötesberget on Gullö. Telegraph-related tower structures were built along the coast at regular intervals, on the ridges of the coastal hills.