Björkudden

Björkudden{{cite web|lang=fi |url=http://www.rky.fi/read/asp/r_kohde_det.aspx?KOHDE_ID=1544 | title=Östersundomin kartano, kappeli ja Björkuddenin huvila}} ({{langx|fi|Koivuniemi}}) is a manor house in Östersundom, Helsinki, Finland, designed by the architect Wilhelm Linsén{{Cite web |title=Björkudden |language=fi |url=http://sivut.sipooinstituutti.net/kotiseutu/kuvat/bjor.jpg |access-date=2008-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724064628/http://sivut.sipooinstituutti.net/kotiseutu/kuvat/bjor.jpg |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-07-24}} and built in the mid-19th century. Koivuniemi was the home of the Finnish writer and historian Zacharias Topelius.{{Cite web |title=Etusivu |website=kansallisbiografia.fi |url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/english}}{{Cite web |title=Zacharias Topelius Skrifter |language=sv |publisher=Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland |url=http://www.sls.fi/topelius/biografi.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=2008-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926133100/http://www.sls.fi/topelius/biografi.htm |archive-date=2008-09-26}} After his death it returned to the previous owners and is to the present owned by the Lilius family.

Well known guests of Koivuniemi include the poet Carl Snoilsky, writer {{ill|Karl August Tavaststjerna|fi|K. A. Tavaststjerna|de}} and the social activist Alexandra Gripenberg.

Sources

https://web.archive.org/web/20070224013520/http://www.nykarlebyvyer.nu/SIDOR/TEXTER/PROSA/NF/topelinf.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20090912100820/http://sivut.sipooinstituutti.net/kotiseutu/vasen.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20080926133100/http://www.sls.fi/topelius/biografi.htm
http://www.histdoc.net/varia/mechelin1888sv.html
http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/english/person/4437
https://web.archive.org/web/20080926133100/http://www.sls.fi/topelius/biografi.htm

References

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