Ainola’s architecture and construction
Ainola’s architecture and construction Aino and Jean dreamt of building their own house from early on. The young family initially lived at various different addresses in Helsinki, but in the late 19th century, Jean Sibelius started feeling the need to distance himself from the boisterous artist life in Helsinki. As Jean later reminisced: “In Helsinki, […]
Ainola’s garden
Establishing the garden Having a garden had been especially Aino’s long-term dream, and a kitchen garden was established in Ainola already in the spring of 1905, the following year after the family had moved to the house. The plot was still full of stones after the building work, but despite it, Aino worked on the […]
Daily life in Ainola
By today’s standards, the family living in Ainola in the early 20th century was a large one: mother and father as well as their daughters Eva, Ruth, Katarina, Margareta and Heidi. From the 1910s onwards, two women, Aino Kari and Helmi Vainikainen, also lived with the family permanently as domestic help. Furthermore, Heikki “Hesa” Sormunen […]