Vääräkoski Manor is a historic factory patron’s manor, which was built in the early 1920s by Gustav Adolf Lönnqvist, a factory owner, engineer and factory patron who founded the Vääräkoski cardboard factory in 1898 and owned sawmills in Tampere, to replace a lace villa-type manor house that burned down in 1919. The manor house, which was finally completed in 1922, is neoclassical in style with a mansard roof, reminiscent of 18th-century manor house architecture.

The main building of the manor was designed by architect Matti Visanti (previously, until 1936, August Mattias Björklund.) The manor building is presented with its facade drawings in Matti Visanti’s biography (Mäkelä Riitta 1985, Matti Visanti, a multi-talented artist in the visual arts, Publishing Company Pohjoinen, Oulu).

The Vääräkoski manor is protected by the Finnish Antiquities Authority, as are the other buildings of the Vääräkoski cardboard factory and the factory area. The factory patron Lönnqvist barely managed to see the manor finished; he died when it was completed in 1922. The main building of the Vääräkoski manor has an area of ​​approximately 800 m2, and the current various outbuildings have an area of ​​approximately 200 m2. Originally, the manor and factory (owned by Lönqvist) included a little over 1,000 ha of land, mainly forest and significant rapids in Vääräkoski and Ryötönkoski rapids on the Inhanjoki River. In the South Ostrobothnian tradition, the people of Ähtäri call their two factory patron manors pytingi after their main buildings, Inha Pytinki and Vääräkoski Pytinki. For the people of South Ostrobothnia, Pytinki is therefore a (large) building.

The owners of the Vääräkoski Manor during its history have been the manufacturer G.A.Lönnqvist 1898-1922, G.A.Lönnqvist’s heirs Ay 1922-1957, Jean and Brita Seraidaris 1957-1977, Janni Seraidaris 1977-78, Vääräkoski Oy 1978-1986 (Ahti Hintsa, Ensio Niemelä and Raimo Lamminaho), Rainer and Helvi Roth and their company 1986-87, Aija and Arto Merisalo and their company 1987-1993, Liikekiinteistöjen Vuokraus Oy (investor Olavi Saarinen’s company) 1993-1994 and Villa Hintsa Oy (Hintsa family) 1994 – present.

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