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Konttinen Field received its name from the Konttinen mansion built in 1873–1876 by Terje Olsén, a Norwegian lumber baron. The buildings of the mansion were so-called vertical log houses. The forestry headquarters of Kemiyhtiö, the famous pulp and paper company and sawmill founded in 1893, were in this mansion. The Company’s powerful Director of Forestry Hugo Richard Sandberg, and later the equally legendary Forestry Head Jarl Sundqvist, lived in the mansion. Some of the buildings were destroyed in 1940, when the mansion was bombarded during the Winter War. The rest were destroyed on 10 October 1944.
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