Klaavola House

The Klaavola horse farm is mentioned in history books as early as the beginning of the 17th century, and together with the German barracks now housed in the Air Defence Museum, it is one of the oldest farms in the village of Hyökkälä in Tuusula. Klaavola was a wealthy farm that provided transport services and offered many travellers a place to stay in its cottage. In 1744, the farm was divided between two brothers, Johan and Erik Högberg. At that time, Klaavola remained the main farm, and the new farm built next to it was named Erikas after its owner.

The current main building at Klaavola dates back to the tu of the 18th and 19th centuries and was extended in the 1940s. The logs used in the Klaavola ba probably come from an old smokehouse. The courtyard building has been used as a farmhand’s cottage and, most recently, as a baking cottage. Adjacent to the courtyard building are a shed, a woodshed, a milk room and a granary. The outbuilding opposite the main building, with its outdoor room and cellar, dates from the 1940s. There is a sauna at the edge of the courtyard. On the other side of the road is a cowshed and a henhouse at the end of it. The Klaavola ba was located further away from the group of buildings, in the area where the Keski-Uusimaa printing house is now located.

Over time, the Klaavola farm’s land has extended to the shores of Lake Tuusulanjärvi and towards Kerava. As the centre of Hyrylä grew, the farm’s land had to be sold off bit by bit. The land belonging to the military base in Tuusula also belonged to the Klaavola farm before it was transferred to the Finnish Defence Forces. As late as 1955, the farm’s forest was handed over to the military base for use as a training area. The land in Klaavola was cultivated until the early 1970s.

Klaavola now a museum

Since the Klaavola farm was transferred to the ownership of the municipality of Tuusula, it has served as a local history museum since 1983. The Klaavola house shows what life was like on a prosperous farm in Uusimaa in the early 20th century. The rooms of the house are decorated in the style of the interwar period with items from the museum’s collections and from the former residents of the house, the Collin family.