Our Story
Welcome to the former City Hall of Rovaniemi
Almost 90 % of the Rovaniemi city surface, including the former city hall, was destroyed in October 1944 during the Second World War. The City needed to be rebuilt and local architect Ferdinand Salokangas was tasked to design the New City Hall for the City of Rovaniemi. The doors of the new functionalist style city hall were first opened in 1949.
The City council moved to a new building in 1988 and the old building was left unused. Local Hotel entrepreneur Mikael Gröhn saw the value of the building and converted it into apartments and commercial spaces in 2004. During summer 2013 Mikael Gröhn had an idea to renovate the building again and this time into a modern and high quality boutique hotel.
Plans proceeded quickly. The designing assignment of the new hotel was given to leading hotel and restaurant architect in Finland, Mr. Jaakko Puro. All the rooms and areas were to be spacious and designed with personality as well as high quality.
