Norra Latin

Norra Latin Högre allmänna läroverket för gossar å Norrmalm
Norra Latin, façade on Drottninggatan
Address
71b Drottninggatan Norrmalm Stockholm, 111 23 Sweden
Information
School type	Gymnasium (senior secondary)
Established	3 September 1880
Closed	1982
Song	O Herre, du som säger
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Coordinates: 59°20′08″N 18°03′26″E / 59.33556°N 18.05722°E / 59.33556; 18.05722

Norra Latin is the familiar Swedish name of a historic school more properly known as Högre allmänna läroverket för gossar å Norrmalm ("public senior secondary school for boys at Norrmalm"). Completed in 1880, for over a hundred years the school, at 71b Drottninggatan in the Norrmalm district of Stockholm, offered an education that emphasized Greek, Latin and classical studies. The school was formed by a merger that included Klara gamla skola on Klara västra kyrkogata and Stockholms gymnasium on the island of Riddarholmen. Although a 1918 resolution declared that the school should be co-educational, girls were in fact not admitted until 1961. In the beginning of the 1980s the building was sold to Landsorganisationen i Sverige, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, who renovated the building as a modern conference centre, opening in 1989.

The building was designed in Neo-Renaissance style by Helgo Zetterwall and was inaugurated in 1880 in the presence of, among others, Church of Sweden Archbishop Anton Sundberg, King Oscar II and Crown Prince Eugen. The architecture follows the 19th-century academic drawing tradition and incorporates glazed atriums on three floors with Romanesque arcade passageways and surrounding classrooms. The entire composition is similar to a dual Florentine Renaissance palace. Within the central axis, Zetterwall arranged a large gymnasium and an auditorium.