Helsinki - Former Kämp Hotel (Historic Building)

On the north side of Helsinki's Esplanade (Pohjoisesplanadi), at the corner of Kluuvikatu, is a building which was pulled down stone by stone in the early 1960s so that the unstable foundations could be renewed and was then re-erected, leaving the facade unchanged. This building, formerly the Kämp hotel and restaurant (a favorite haunt of Sibelius and Gallén- Kallela), was a center for the foreign press during the Winter War of 1939-40, and it was here, in March 1940, that a government spokesman announced the signing of an armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union.