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278: 347: 320: 464: 199: 167: 440: 397: 190:) Laurids Eskildsen. The property was shortly thereafter sold to Christian Siegfred von Plessen (1646-1723). In the 1690s, he constructed a large town mansion with a Baroque garden on the rear. The property was after his death passed on to his son Ludvig von Plessen. His property was listed in the new cadastre of 1756 as No. 325 in the West Quarter. It was a two-storey building, with a long main wing along the canal and two secondary wings extending from its rear side along each side of a central courtyard. It had a large garden, which occupied the entire central part of the block. 452: 371: 29: 238: 268:
The property was later acquired by Det Forenede Borgerlige Selskab (founded in 1821), a merger of Dreyer's Club and a number of other clubs. Jean Baptist Oluf Gamél (1812–1886), a chef who acted as club host, resided on the first floor of the building at the time of the 1840 census. He lived there
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The next owner, Jens Lund, another merchant, constructed a couple of warehouses around the corner in Ny Vestergade. A freemason's lodge, Zorobabel af Nordstjernen, was based in the building in the 1790s. In the middle of the 19th century it had fallen into disrepair.
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panels and sandstone pilasters and painted ornaments. The landings feature murals of landscapes and houses. One of them is of the Christensens family's first country house at
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Nr. 18 was acquired by the grocer Rudolph Christensen (1849–1925) in 1886. He was the joint owner of the ribbon factory Christensen og Hansen. The company had a shop on
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with transforming it into two separate apartment buildings in 1851–1852. Stilling added two extra floors. Cassabadan opened a bar in the basement of No. 242B.
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were anong the residents of the buildings in the building from 1852 to 1855. Count H. A. Reventlow-Criminil (1798-1869) was a resident in No. 242A in 1853.
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politician Christen Berg (1829–1891) lived in the ground floor of No. 18 in 1885–1886. The writer and educator Johan Krohn (1841–1925) from 1875 to 1879.
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The walls of the staircase at No. 18 are richly decorated with murals created for Rudolph Christensen in the 1890s by C.W. Juulmann & Søn in
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with his wife Andrine Cassine Gamel (née Stockfleth), their two children (aged one and two), two male servants and three maids.
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The neglected building was acquired by Alphonse Cassabadan. He had recently retired from his position as head chef for king
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George Quaade, who had been appointed to Minister of Education on 1 July 1864, lived at No. 18 in 1865. The publisher and
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Søren Lyche. He was later elected as one of the directors of the Danish Asiatic Company. He had previously owned the
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in 1912 in connection with Napoleon's planned visit to the city. It was completed in just three months.
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The two buildings were listed as Frederiksholms Kanal 16 and Frederiksholms Kanal 18 when in 1859
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of 1689 as No. 285 in the city's West Quarter, owned by customs inspector (
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On 10 September 1759, No. 319, No. 321 and No. 325 were all sold to count
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A section of Thorvaldsen's Alexander frieze from the gateway in No. 17
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Knuth died in 1776. On 14 June 1779, the mansion was sold to merchant
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Each building consists of four storeys over a high cellar and a
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Rudolph Christensen and his family at the dinner table, c. 1905
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The interior of the two gateways are decorated with a copy of
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The property on the site was listed in the Copenhagen's first
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Frederiksholms Kanal 16 seen from the other side of the canal
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The property was at some point acquired by the businessman
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are two almost identical listed properties overlooking
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The 12-bay side wing of No. 18 seen from the courtyard
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Only the "3--" is readable due to a folding damage.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
55°40′28.12″N 12°34′35.99″E / 55.6744778°N 12.5766639°E / 55.6744778; 12.5766639
Frederiksholm Canal
Copenhagen
Denmark
National Museum of Denmark
Danish Heritage Agency

Christian Gedde's map
cadastre

Eggert Christopher Knuth
supercargo
Danish Asiatic Company
Cort Adeler House
Christianshavn

Caspar Peter Bügel
Charlottenlund
Ringsted Abbey
Danish rigsdaler

Christian VIII
Harald Conrad Stilling
N.F.S. Grundtvig
August Bournonville
house numbering

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