Frederiksholms Kanal 16-18

Frederiksholms Kanal 16–18
Frederiksholms Kanal 16 seen from the other side of the canal
General information
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Country	Denmark 55°40′28.12″N 12°34′35.99″E / 55.6744778°N 12.5766639°E / 55.6744778; 12.5766639Coordinates: 55°40′28.12″N 12°34′35.99″E / 55.6744778°N 12.5766639°E / 55.6744778; 12.5766639
Completed	1852
Design and construction
Architect	H. C. Stilling

Denmark

Frederiksholms Kanal 16–18 are two almost identical listed properties overlooking Frederiksholm Canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The Victorian Home, a 15-room, late 19th-century bourgeois home now operated as a historic house museum by the National Museum of Denmark, is located on the second floor of No. 18. The Attorney general (Rigsadvokaten) is based at No. 16. Both buildings were listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the Danish Heritage Agency on 6 April 1969.

The Plessen family constructed a town mansion at the site in the 18th century. The Plassen Mansion (Danish: Det Plessenske Palæ) was a two-storey Baroque style building. In the middle of the 19th century it had fallen into despair and was acquired by Alphonse Cassabadan who had recently retired from his position as head chef for king Christian VIII. Cassabadan commissioned the architect the architect Harald Conrad Stilling to redevelop the site into two separate apartment buildings in 1851-1852. Stilling added two extra floors. Cassabadan also established a tavern in the basement of No. 18.

The theologian N.F.S. Grundtvig and ballet master August Bournonville both lived in the building from 1852 to 1855. Count H. A. Reventlow-Criminil (1798-1869) was also a resident in No. 16 in 1853.

George Quaade, who had been appointed to Minister of Education on 1 July 1864, lived at No. 18 in 1865. The publisher and Venstre 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.

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 Østergade. Christensen undertook a major renovation of the building. The Christensen family's own home, a 15-room apartment, was located on the second floor. The two daughters Gerda and Ellen Christensen lived in the apartment until 1963 and left it with all its furnishings to the National Museum of Denmark.