Badstuegade 1H is a house and a

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Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...

, Denmark. The house was built in 1809 and was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the

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on 7 October 1970. The house is situated in the historic and central Latin Quarter neighbourhood on ''Badstuegade'' by ''Pustervig'' square.

History

The house was built by the merchant

Harboe Meulengracht Harboe Galthen Meulengracht (10 February 1767 – 27 May 1853) was a Danish merchant and shipowner in Denmark who was appointed to the Danish Supreme Court and was purveyor to the royal household. Biography Meulengracht was born in Aarhus to Lar ...

in 1809 as a warehouse to store imported products and it is one of the only remaining warehouses facing a street. In 1816, he built an adjacent villa facing

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and the two buildings forms a courtyard. The warehouse was listed in 1970 and carefully renovated in 1977 and the courtyard-facade was restored to its original appearance. In 1998, the building was sold by Aarhus Municipality to the company ''Skumhuset'' (The Foam-house) operating a workshop specializing in foam and upholstery for furniture. In 2016, the company moved to the northern neighbourhood of Risskov and the warehouse was renovated to make room for new business tenants.

Architecture

Meulengracht's warehouse represents one of the few examples of the Louis Seize style. It is a plastered brick building with

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and

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stylistic elements. The warehouse was renovated in 1977 when an old building in the courtyard was demolished making the building visible from all sides. The original wooden construction was replaced with concrete columns and the existing windows were replaced with wood plates with small openings.

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* {{Coord, 56.1582, 10.2079, region:DK_type:landmark, display=title Listed buildings in Aarhus Buildings and structures completed in 1809 Listed warehouses in Denmark