Location Copenhagen Completed 1797 Client Frédéric de Coninck | Country Denmark Opened 1797 Architect Joseph-Jacques Ramée | |
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Similar Tivoli Gardens, Dyrehavsbakken, Tivoli Friheden, Fårup Summer Park, Legoland Billund Resort | ||
The De Coninck House (Danish: De Conincks Gård) is a historic property located at Store Kongensgade 72 in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It takes its name after Frédéric de Coninck for whom it was built in the 1790s.
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History
The property was built in 1797 for etatsråd the merchant and shipowner Frédéric de Coninck. It is believed that the architect was Joseph-Jacques Ramée.
The building was later acquired by the Barnekow family and the composer Christian Barnekow lived there around 1880. The painter Otto Bache lived on the first floor from 1904 to 1921. Royal ohotographer Leopold Albert lived in the building in the 1930s. The architect H. P. G. Koch undertook a restoration of the building in 1937.
Architecture
The building consists of two floors and a celler and is eight bays wide. Two side wings project from the rear side of the main wing on each their side of a narrow courtyard. The northern side wing is eight bays long plus a two-bay rounded connection where it meets the main wing. The shorter side connects to a three-bay rear wing. The building was listed in 1918.