Nyhavn 12

The site was originally part of Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve's large property at the corner of Kongens Nytorv and Nyhavn. In Copenhagen's first cadastre from 1689 it was listed as No. 54 in St. Ann's East Quarter.[1]

No. 276 seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of St. Ann's East Quarter, 1757.

A row of small houses along the canal were later turned into separate properties. The property now known as Nyhavn 8 was listed in the new cadastre of 1756 as No. 276 in St. Ann's East Quarter. Together with some of the adjacent houses it was used as residences for staff at the botanical gardens. which were then situated at the northern end of Amaliegade (cf. Amaliegade 45).

Nyhavn 12 was built circa 1770 for merchant and shipowner Andreas Bodenhoff.

The property was listed in the new cadastre of 1806 as No. 276 in Eastern Quarter. It belonged to wholesale merchant (grosserer) Johan Gerhardt Müllerat that time.

The economist Oluf Christian Olufsen (1764–1827) was a resident in the building in 1809–1810. He worked for Det Classenske Fideicommis and became a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1815. The deaf-mute painter Andreas Herman Hunæus lived in the building from 1857 to 1863.[2] The building was listed by the Danish Heritage Agency in the Danish national registry of protected buildings in 1918. The registration was expanded in 2000.

The property was acquired by Holmegaard Glass Factory in 1913 (or possibly earlier). The company was from then on headquartered in the building. [3] The company operated a retail outlet on the ground floor from from 1918 to 1973.