The backyard house at Brahenkatu 1 dates from the 19th century, but at the beginning of the 20th century its exterior was changed to Art Nouveau style. The people in Raahe liked Art Nouveau style, whereas they did not become enthusiastic about changing their houses to revival styles like other towns did during the latter part of the 19th century. There is only one joiner style house in Raahe.

The former Freitag house was built in the early 19th century. The wing facing Rantakatu has later been changed and raised. The facade and the boarding of the house typically represent the late 19th century: the facade is divided by mouldings into zones, where the boarding is either horizontal or vertical.

Heikki Sovio’s house in the place of the old town hall was built in 1812, soon after the great town fire. Although building two-storey wooden houses was forbidden after the great fire Fredrik Sovelius built a stately two-storey log house imitating a stone building on the most dominant place of Rantakatu and the market square. There is a certain spirit of the Gustavian neo-classicism in this house, and a clear intention of representing a stone building. This has been succeeded in: the closed match boarding of the beginning of the 19th century gives a smooth surface for the facade.

The two-storey Sovelius house on the north side of the square was built in the 1780s. It is the oldest preserved dwelling house in Raahe. The house of the Sovelius’ shipowner family tells not only of the life of a middle-class family in the 18th and 19th centuries, but also of the architectural history. The early boarding of the house, vertical boarding finished with profiled covering laths, dates even from the 1790s.

The buildings around the first marketplace of the town, nowadays Myhrberg Park, give a good picture of the wooden town construction in Raahe from the 18th century up to the first decades of the 20th century.