Porsgrunn City Hall
| Porsgrunn City Hall | |
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| Porsgrunn rådhus | |
Porsgrunn City Hall in 2007
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Architectural style | Neo-Renaissance with elements of Art Nouveau |
| Address | Rådhusgata 1 |
| Town or city | Porsgrunn |
| Country | Norway |
| Coordinates | 59°8′28″N 9°39′19.5″E / 59.14111°N 9.655417°ECoordinates: 59°8′28″N 9°39′19.5″E / 59.14111°N 9.655417°E |
| Current tenants | Porsgrunn City Council |
| Groundbreaking | 3 Mar 1904 |
| Inaugurated | 20 Jun 1905 |
| Owner | Porsgrunn municipality |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Haldor Larsen Børve |
Porsgrunn City Hall is the seat of government for Porsgrunn city and municipality in Telemark, Norway. The current city hall was constructed in 1905 after the original building was destroyed in a fire. The building is situated at the intersection of Storgata and Rådhusgata in eastern Porsgrunn.
The first city hall in Porsgrunn was originally part of a farm called the Chamberlain Estate (Norwegian: Kammerherregården). The farmhouse was built for Niels Aall between 1763 and 1765 by the Joen Jacobsen, who was famous for building Grenland churches such as Østre Porsgrunn Church. Jacobsen built the farmhouse using the pattern of Herregården, a count's manor house in Larvik, after which he had also modeled the house at Borgestad Farm in Skien a few years earlier. The mansion was an example of classic Telemark architecture, with its distinctive H-shaped floor plan and steep hip roof in the seteritak form, characterized by two slopes of roof separated by a vertical wall.
In 1777, the farm was passed down to Niels' son, Jacob Aall (uncle of the historian of the same name), who sold the farm ten years later to his brother-in-law, Severin Løvenskiold (father of the politician of the same name). Løvenskiold was a chamberlain (Norwegian: kammerherre) under the Danish crown, thus giving the farm its name. In 1814, Løvenskiold moved to his property at Fossum Ironworks in Fossum and gave the farm to his two sons, Niels and Fritz Løvenskiold. The farm was later sold to Jacob Grubbe Ottesen in 1823 and then to the newly formed Bratsberg formannskapsdistrikt in 1838 for a sum of 2,200 speciedaler.
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