Ved Stranden 16

The site was in 1689 as No. 219 owned by kancelliforvalter Rasmus Rasmussen. The building was together with most of the other buildings in the area destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The property was later acquired by General War Commissioner Stephen Hansen. He commissioned Philip de Lange to construct a new building in 1748.[1] Philip de Lange, whom he knew from the Royal Copenhagen Shooting Society, had most likely already built a new main building at Hellebækgård for him. Hansen had also acquired the adjacent No. 205 in Admiralgade on the other side of the block. Hansen resigned from the military in 1750 to focus on his career as an industrialist and merchant in Helsingør where de Lange constructed the Stephen Hansen Mansion for him in 1754,[2] In 1756, he still owned the two properties in Copenhagen which as of 1755 were known as No. 250 (formerly No. 213) and No. 241 (formerly No. 205).

The two propertoes were later acquired by Valentin Madsen. He established a sugar refinery on the site. Madsen resided in the building with his wife Maren Jens Datter and their six children (aged six to 17) at the time of the 1787 census. The other residents were a floor clerk, a seamstress, a female cook a maid, a caretaker and four workers at the sugar refninery.[3]

The house seen on a painting by Sally Henriques

Madsen's building was one of few buildings in the area that survived the Copenhagen Fire of 1795. After the fire, he also purchased the property No. 242 in Admiralgade.

His property was home to a total of 19 residents at the 1801 census. Madsen and his wife lived there with four children.[4]

Madsen's three properties were jointly listed in the new ccadastre of 1806 as No. 253 in the city's East Quarter.

The property No. 153 was home to a total of 17 residents at the 1840 census. The just 19 years old Peter Mac Evay resided alone on the first floor.[5] Jürgen Friederich Garven, the manager of a sugar house, resided with his wife Maria Cathrina Garven, their three children (aged 11 to 20) and a maid on the second floor.iederich Garven [6] Iwer Valentin Christian Dresler, a 29-year-old employee in a trading firm (handelsbetjent), resided alone on the ground floor.[7]

The property was in the first half of the 1840s owned by a merchant named Harboe. He heightened the building in Ved Stranden in 1844 and constructed a new building in Admiralgade. In 1845, he divided the property into two properties, No. 153A in Ved Stranden and No. 153B In Admiralgade. With the introduction of house numbering by street in 1859 (as opposed to the old cadastral numbers by quarter), No. 153A became known as Ved Stranden 16. The property at Ved Stranden 16 was in the middle of the 19th century owned by a wholesale merchant named Harboe.

No. 153 A was home to a total of 22 residents at the 1850 census. Herman Feincke Stahl, a textile manufacturer, resided with his wife, daughter, sister-in-law, niece and a maid on the ground floor.Poul Eduard Moritz Löbel, a hotelier, resided with his wife and three servants on the first floor.[8] Frederick August Baggesen, an army colonel, resided on the third floor with his wife, four children and one maid.

Limfjordskompagniet's outlet photographed by Peter Elfelt in 1917

Limfjordskompagniet, a manufacturer of shellfish from Mors, opened an outlet in the basement in the 1910s.[9]

Kraks Fond, which had until then been based in the Krak House on Nytorv, was a tenant in the building from 1898. It is now based in Fæstningens Materialgård.[10]