Lampuoti house
Salamajärventie 806 Perho
The Lampuoti tenant farm is said to have been purchased in the late 1600s from the Crown by Esko Laurinpoika Tiainen, who served in the Ostrobothnian regiment of the Sweden-Finland army and was widely known as a bloomery master, blacksmith, farmer and fisherman. Matti Lampuoti completed the present Lampuoti house presumably in the early 1800s, but its oldest parts are possibly from the 1740s. The last resident of the house was Hilda Lampuoti (1898–1996).
The house was uninhabited since the 1980s and due to be auctioned for tearing down, but the municipality of Perho rescued it by buying the house and the plot. Based on a decision by the Ministry of the Environment, Lampuoti was protected in 1999. It has now been renovated and restored to its original look.
Stories
Samuli Paulaharju (1930, 15–17) talks about the magnate Esko Tiainen, who lived by Lake Salamajärvi with his large family from the late 1600s to the early 1700s. Tiainen had a house, “a big, age-old chimneyless hut made of round logs and equipped with window shutters”, which was called Tiala. He also had houses elsewhere in Perho, as well as numerous workers. Fish were caught from the wilderness waters and plenty of woodland had been burnt for farming. He also had cattle, even “a hundred horned animals, a thousand wool producers”. According to local lore, Tiainen manufactured iron from lake ore in his own bloomery. There were several iron gates in Tiala, which also reflects the wealth of the farm. According to Paulaharju’s story, the master of the house and the farmhands worked so hard that upon arriving at the wilderness cabin in the late evening “the farmhands would fall to the floor and the old man would stretch himself on the bench and fall so deeply asleep that once a hungry dog even ate a muddy fur shoe from his foot”. Waking up in the morning, the farmer saw his shoeless foot and cursed the whole break cabin.
Photos
Lampuouti house summer 2019
The interior of Lampuoti house
A view of Salamajärvi
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