 The more prominent buildings of this National Romantic style were built in stone, but the discovery in Finland of deposits of soapstone, an easily carved metamorphic rock, overcame the difficulty of using only hard granite; an example of this is the facade of the Pohjola Insurance Building, Helsinki (1901) by Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen.The Jugendstil style became associated in Finland with the fight for national independence.The importance of nationalism also was made evident in the actual surveying of Finnish vernacular buildings