Dybhuset

The Dyb House was built on Buholmen in Ålesund in 1879. It was put up by two families from Godøya. Arnt Ystenes with his wife Marta Ystenes, and Ole Kristian Dyb together with his wife Petrine Severine Larsdatter Dyb. The houses on Buholmen were not destroyed by the great fire in Ålesund in 1904. Therefore, is this house from Buholmen one of the oldest houses that remain from Ålesund. In 1978 the houses unfortunately were demolished in order to give way for the new highway to Ålesund. A lot of the houses in Ålesund looked like the Dyb-house before the town burned down in 1904. Houses like these were also commonly built along the coast of Sunnmøre from the 1840’s on Godøya, Giske, Valderøya, Vigra and the Haram islands. The houses were built with logs that were joined together in the corners. And they were wainscoted both on the outer walls and on many of the indoor walls. In the middle of the house lie a hallway and a kitchen with a living room and a bedchamber on either side. On the first floor lie a bedroom and a storeroom coming out on each side from the staircase. We know that the centre room upstairs was used as a shoemaker’s workshop by the families living in the house in 1910.