Ole Peter Riis Høegh

Ole Peter Riis Høegh (also Ole Petter Riis Høegh, often simply Peter Høegh; July 27, 1806 – March 1, 1852) was one of Norway's first trained civilian architects and was Bergen's first town surveyor.

Høegh was born in Grue, Norway. He designed several significant buildings in Bergen and Trondheim. Stylistically, Høegh's architecture is characterized by Neoclassicism, but also contains early touches of Historicism. He died in Bergen.

Høegh received his first training in architecture under the architect Jørgen Gerhard Løser. After this, he studied at the Royal School of Drawing under Hans Linstow. In 1823, Høegh was hired by Linstow as a draftsman for the Royal Palace. In 1825 and 1826 he was a supervisor at Hadeland in charge of quarrying soapstone for the palace. As Linstow's assistant, he was involved in the plans for Grue Church, and created drawings for details and the interior. He worked as an assistant to Linstow until 1828, when he replaced Christian Heinrich Grosch as town surveyor in Christiania (now Oslo). From 1829 to 1830, he worked as a foreman in the construction of Immanuel Church and the secondary school in Frederikshald (now Halden) based on designs by Grosch.

In 1830, Høegh moved to Trondheim, where he was responsible for a number of important construction projects over the next five years. Both the forced-labor prison (now the National Museum of Justice) and the Military Hospital were built based on Høegh's plans. The former Bank of Norway main office was built from 1830 to 1832. In cooperation with Gustav Adolph Lammers, Høegh designed the Tronka asylum (built from 1836 to 1842). In 1834, he was involved in the construction of a new Gothic vault in the octagon of Nidaros Cathedral and he prepared a proposal for needed repairs. In 1835 he submitted the first proposal for replacing the cathedral dome.

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