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The Fellman Manor

Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: EF-S10-18mm ƒ/4.5-5.6 IS STM
Focal length: 12 mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.0
Exposure: 1/100 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200

Paraphrasing from the Finnish Wikipedia entry:

The Fellman Manor, a Dutch style mansion was built in 1898 by Riksdagsman Captain August Fellman, and was designed by architect Hjalmar Åberg. It is located right next to the old and recently obsoleted bus station, and the Lahti sports stadium.

In 13th April of 1903 the Fellman manor hosted the constitutional layers' meeting, where the protocol secretary K. J. Ståhlberg, riksdagsman August Fellman and P.E. Svinhufvud along with tens of other constitutional lawyers came together to decide how the enacting of the February manifest should be opposed in the Great Principality of Finland.

In 1918, after the civil war, the so-called Fellman field was the holding-ground of over 20,000 surrendered Finnish People's Delegation soldiers, supporters and civilians who had tried to flee East toward Soviet Russia, but whose escape had been stopped by the Brandenstein squad. Other such place that had had a profound historical effect along the Fellman field, was the POW camp of Hennala, that situated on the Lahti garrison ground where executions took place.

When August Fellman died, his estate owned the manor until the year 1919, when it was purchased along some land suitable for industrial properties by J. Ranta-Knuutila and E. Sirkkunen, with the funding of the commercial bank Kansallis-Osake-Pankki... ...The manor and its immediate land property was then sold to the City of Lahti...

Because I'm still feeling the effects of the panorama all-nighter, I'l go to bed now. I promised I'd visit my father on Saturday, so I'll try to catch enough sleep to be sharp tomorrow.

So see you again tomorrow! :)

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