L'ambassade de France en Finlande est la représentation diplomatique de la République française en Finlande. Elle est située à Helsinki, la capitale du pays, et son ambassadrice est, depuis 2024, Raja Rabia.
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The Embassy of the United States in Helsinki is the diplomatic mission of the United States to Finland, located at the Kaivopuisto area in Helsinki, Finland.
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The villa Kleineh is an old villa in Helsinki's Kaivopuisto, Finland. Nowadays it is the oldest villa in Kaivopuisto and the official residence of the ambassador of the Netherlands to Finland.
The building is located at Itäinen Puistotie 7 and was built for the Ullanlinna bath house guests. The lot was handed over in 1839 and the building is assumed to have been finished during the next year. It is unsure who the architect is, but some sources mention Carl Ludvig Engel and his student Jean Wik. It has also been argued that C.A. Edelfelt was the architect, but at the time the building was being finished, Edelfelt hadn't started his career yet.
The "Bath- and wellhouse" corporation by Viktor Hartwall, A.W. Astenius and J.A. Decker took the initiative of building the house. They let it to guests of the bathhouses during summers. In 1857 restaurateur Louis Kleineh bought the house for personal use and it remained family property until 1928. From that time on the house is being called "Villa Kleineh".
The architecture of the house was representative of the Empire style. This was further expanded by Jean Wik in 1858 and Theodor Decker in 1872. More modifications have been made during the years 1882, 1889 and 1914. In 1928 the director of Nobel Standard, Leopold Lerche, bought the villa. During the next year he had Birger Bederley make more and larger modifications than ever before. During that time Villa Kleineh got its classicist look that it now still has.
Lerche died in 1929 and in 1954 the family of his widow's children inherited the villa. Their family name was Adlercreutz and for that reason the villa got its second name "Villa Adlercreutz". After the Second World War the villa was in use of the British delegation of the Allied Commission. The villa and its garden are protected from 1965 on. After the death in 1989 of the last resident of the villa, Henrik Adlercreutz, the building became property of a developer and it remained mostly empty. The later owner Merita Bank let the villa in 1998 as a residence to the ambassador of the Netherlands. Two years later it was sold to the Netherlands state. The ambassador is a resident of the villa since November 1999.
In the movie "Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina" the house functions as the summer house of monarch Popoff. According to local ghost traditions, the ghost of Kleineh's second wife, Maria Kleineh still roams through Villa Kleineh and Kaivopuisto.
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Kaivopuisto, nicknamed Kaivari in Finnish or Brunsan in Swedish, is one of the oldest and best known parks in central Helsinki, Finland, and also a neighbourhood of about 500 inhabitants where the park is located.
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The Mannerheim Museum is located in Helsinki, Finland. It is dedicated to preserving and displaying items related to the life and times of Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim, a Finnish statesman and military officer. The Mannerheim Museum is located on top of a hill in a prestigious residential area next to the Kaivopuisto park in Helsinki. The building was the home of Mannerheim from 1924 to 1951. With the exception of a few rooms that have been converted for exhibition purposes, his home has been preserved in its original state.
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Kaivohuone is a restaurant in Helsinki, Finland. It is located in the middle of Kaivopuisto Park on the Iso Puistotie street, about one and a half kilometers south of the Market Square. The restaurant features a large outdoor terrace, and in the summer, popular nightclubs performing by top artists are organized in the restaurant, which are especially popular on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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