Adolf Wilhelm Wulf August Agthe (May 6, 1863January 31, 1941) was a Norwegian architect. Adolf Agthe was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of Carl Agthe (1830–1899) and Wulfhilda Agthe (born 1839). His parents had immigrated to Norway from

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. He studied at Christiania Technical School (''Christiania tekniske skole''). Adolf Agthe established an architectural office in

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in 1893. He designed a number of apartment building in Oslo. In 1900, he moved to

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after the fire there. After 1900, he settled in

Sandefjord Sandefjord () is a city and the most populous municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The municipality of Sandefjord was established on 1 January 1838. The municipality of Sandar was merged into Sandefjord on 1 January 1969. On 1 ...

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county, Norway where he did a number of designs on various buildings.

Notable works

* Herslebs gate 7 in the borough of

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in Oslo (1893) * Arbins gate 13 in the Ruseløkka district of Oslo (1894) *

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50 in the Frogner district of Oslo (1896) * Malmøgaten 1 in the Dælenenga district of Oslo (1898) * Fællesslagteriet at Lørenveien 39 in

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(1911)

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Agthe's Niels Juels gate 50 design
Architects from Oslo 1863 births 1941 deaths {{norway-architect-stub