Thure Adolf Hellström was born on 30 May 1880 in Koivisto rural municipality, Southern Karelia (part of the territory which was ceded to the Soviet Union in the Moscow Peace Treaty 1940).

Hellström studied architecture at the Polytechnical Institute of Helsinki and received his diploma in 1905. After studies, he worked at the roads and waterways administration. In 1906 he won the architecture competition of railway stations to new routes Kemi-Rovaniemi, Joensuu-Nurmes, Seinäjoki-Kaskinen, Perälä-Kristiinankaupunki, Pieksämäki-Savonlinna and Jyväskylä-Pieksämäki. He continued to work at the State Railways the years 1927–1940.

Hellström is one of the most prolific Finnish railway station architects, and as such, an early example of a very specialised architect’s work. Throughout his career, Hellström moved from architectural style to another, his first works representing the Art Nouveau style, then moving towards the Nordic Classicism. Later in his career, Hellström even adapted the Functionalist style.

Thure Hellström died at the age of 66, on 23 December 1946 in Helsinki.