Historic Cities
Walk Helsinki in 1900
AI rebuilds Helsingfors (Helsinki) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Helsingfors — Imperial Capital, 1900
This is Helsinki at the height of its life as the white, neoclassical capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland under the Russian tsar. The walk moves from the harbour and Market Square through Engel’s Senate Square and the Esplanade to Uspenski’s red-brick domes, passing horse trams, fishing boats and new granite city blocks.
36 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 14 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Helsinki as it stood in 1900 (“History of Helsinki”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Approach from the Gulf
- 2. South Harbour Quay
- 3. Kauppatori (Market Square)
- ↳ Old Market Hall Fish Stalls · interior
- 4. Harbour Fish Stalls
- ↳ Harbour Fish Packing Shed · interior
- 5. Katajanokka and Uspenski
- ↳ Uspenski Nave and Iconostasis · interior
- 6. Esplanadi (South End)
- 7. Esplanadi Promenade
- ↳ Hotel Drawing Room · interior
- 8. Kappeli Pavilion
- ↳ Kappeli Café Salon · interior
- 9. Aleksanterinkatu
- ↳ Haberdasher's Salesroom · interior
- 10. Kluuvi and Midtown Blocks
- 11. Old Railway Terminus
- ↳ Railway Waiting Room · interior
- 12. Kaisaniemi Garden Front
- ↳ Kaisaniemi Garden Café · interior
- 13. University Library Exterior
- ↳ Domed Reading Room · interior
- 14. Main University Building
- ↳ Great Lecture Hall · interior
- 15. Unioninkatu to Senate
- 16. Senate Square (Senaatintori)
- 17. Cathedral Steps and Dome
- ↳ Nave of the Cathedral · interior
- 18. Government Palace Exterior
- ↳ Government Palace Council Chamber · interior
- 19. Kruununhaka Stone Housing
- ↳ Kruununhaka Tenement Parlor · interior
- 20. Horse Tram Line
- 21. Ice and Herring Boats
- ↳ Salted Fish Warehouse · interior
- 22. Kaivopuisto Cliff View