Villa Angelica, Meilahti, Helsinki

The City of Helsinki is selling Villa Angelica with its outbuildings for use in accordance with the zoning plan via Huutokaupat.com by auction.

The building is currently used as a restaurant. According to the zoning, its permitted uses, in addition to residential, include spaces serving cultural activities and café operations. Any change of use is the buyer's responsibility. The buyer will be leased a total rental area of approximately 2,153 m².

Address: Tamminiementie 3, 00250 Helsinki

District: Taka‑Töölö

Main villa: Protected building (sr‑1‑s). The building is a log‑framed villa founded on a natural stone plinth. The ground structure is a ventilated crawl space (so‑called rossi foundation). At the north end and on the east side there are separate wooden stair structures without individual plinth buildings. The building has two storeys, a partial basement (technical space) and an attic. External walls are log‑built. Exterior cladding is timber cladding; internally there are boards. Detailed construction drawings are not available. Windows are double‑sash wooden windows. Intermediate floors are timber. The roof is a gable roof with standing seam metal covering with an underlay beneath. Partition walls are timber. Interior ceilings are finished with panelling. Wall tiling exists in the kitchen walls, the ground‑floor WC and the first‑floor bathroom. Floor finishes include various types of vinyl flooring and mostly painted boards. The first‑floor bathroom has tiled flooring.

The building has two storeys and an attic space. The ground floor has operated as a café and the first floor has been in private use. Gross floor area approx. 400 m² and internal area 256 m². The outbuilding is wooden and its area is about 14 m². Areas have not been re‑measured and may differ materially from measurements made according to current regulations.

Land lease: The ground rent will be tied to the official cost‑of‑living index according to the draft land lease agreement (in the attachments).

Permitted use: The building is currently used as a restaurant. According to the zoning, permitted uses, in addition to residential, include spaces for cultural activities and café operations. Any change of use and all required permits and costs are the buyer's responsibility.

Energy certificate: No energy certificate is required by law.

Electricity: The building is connected to the electrical network.

Heating: Storage electric heating and water‑borne radiator heating. The heating networks are old, estimated from the 1950s. Exceptions are some basement installations from the mid‑1980s and early 2000s. Fireplaces have been taken out of use. There is an air‑to‑air heat pump on the lower floor.

Ventilation: Natural (gravity) ventilation.

Water and sewer: The building is connected to the public water and sewer system. The building's plumbing systems date from different decades. Extensive renewals of domestic water pipes and sewers were carried out in the mid‑1980s and early 1990s, but some sewers are estimated to date from the 1960s or earlier.

Condition report: The city commissioned a repair‑needs survey dated 20/08/2025 and an asbestos and hazardous‑materials survey dated 08/10/2023 (see attachments). The properties are sold as seen. The buyer is responsible at their own cost for any repairs or demolition work required, and for any further investigations and for remedying any findings or damages in full. The city is not liable for costs arising from repairs of discovered damages or for additional investigations related to major renovation works.

The buyer is aware that the repair‑needs survey attached to the auction recommends additional investigations that have not been carried out, and that the seller is not liable for any additional investigations or for defects or damages discovered thereafter, including possible rot and moisture damage, defects in roof coverings and structures, hazardous‑material occurrences, defects in the domestic water or sewer networks, or damage to flues.

If the lease area is converted to a plot, the buyer is responsible for the costs of plot formation as well as for any additional investigations related to major renovation works.

History: The first tenant of the plot called Tammisto was gardener Fridolf Sundstén. The villa was completed in 1900, designed by Karl Ärt. In 1911 the city leased the plot to forester A. Ericsson. Later the Alpine‑style villa was renamed Waaranto when master builder Janne Waaranto acquired it in 1917. During the war the lower floor housed a Russian Old‑Believer Orthodox congregation — Orthodox spiritual concerts are remembered to have been held at the villa as early as the 1920s. The city purchased the villa in 1969. Afterwards it housed the association Käsityön Ystävät ry. In 1993 the villa was leased to the Kokkonen restaurateur family who established the café‑restaurant Cafe Angelica (Meilahti villa area local history study, p. 134).

Protection (sr‑1‑s): Historically, architecturally and visually of considerable value, with valuable interiors. The building or any part of it must not be demolished nor subject to repair, alteration or extension works that would weaken its architectural, historical or cultural values or change its architectural characteristics. If such alterations have been carried out previously, restoration works should aim to repair them in a manner well suited to the building's style.

A building‑historical study has been made (RHS in attachments). Restoration works must respect the values identified in the RHS and the preservation provisions of the local detailed plan, preserving the building's characteristics in cooperation with the Helsinki City Museum.

Environment and zoning: Meilahti villa area is perhaps the best known of Helsinki's villa districts. It is a representative example of its era's villa culture and is classified as a nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY 2009). The surrounding area is designated in plan 12372 (27/10/2021) as VLA/s: an area of local recreational and residential importance, culturally and garden‑art historically significant. The villas, buildings, structures, remains of garden culture and natural environment form a valuable ensemble. The villa garden culture, valuable yard features and landscape values must be preserved. Parts of the area contain valuable woodland sites. Areas must be managed considering nature, landscape and cultural values. Existing trees must be preserved so that only measures necessary for nature and landscape management are permitted.