Agronomy House
Fabianinkatu 17 is a National Romantic style, national romantic-Art Nouveau building in central Helsinki. Built in 1900–1901 to a design by the architectural firm of Herman Gesellius, Gesellius, Armas Lindgren, Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen, Saarinen, it was originally a block of flats, but became increasingly used for offices and was for many years known as the Doctors' House (). In 1953 Agronomiliitto, the Finnish Association of Agronomists, bought it, and it is now called Agronomitalo (Agronomy House). Building The building is at the corner of Fabianinkatu and Pohjoinen Makasiinikatu; at this point, Fabianinkatu forms the east side of Kasarmitori (Barracks Square). In 1898 the brother's Axel, Georg and Ernst Ehrnrooth bought the site, which was then occupied like much of the area by a row of two-storey wooden buildings. Georg and Ernst Ehrnrooth subsequently sold their shares to two physicians, Axel Holmberg and Wilhelm Zilliacus. The building was then commissioned from Gesell ...
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