Hakasalmen huvila

This guide to Hakasalmen huvila in Helsinki opens with a question: what do you build when you already have everything? It follows Carl Johan Walleen, Finland's highest judge, who in the 1840s hired architect Ernst Lohrmann to raise this Empire villa and then filled its grounds with rare trees, gravel paths, and a viewing pavilion for a shoreline that once ran much closer. The railway cut straight through those grounds in 1859, and later harbor works carved away still more, shrinking the pleasure garden down toward the courtyard you can see today.