Balthazar Conrad Lange (25 March 1854 - 13 September 1937) was a Norwegian architect.

Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of customs treasurer and lieutenant colonel Christopher Andreas Lange (1808–1888) and Anne Birgithe Falsen. He was a maternal grandson of founding father

Christian Magnus Falsen Christian Magnus Falsen (14 September 1782 – 13 January 1830) was a Norwegian constitutional father, statesman, jurist, and historian. He was an important member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly and was one of the writers of the Consti ...

, grandnephew of Alexander Lange, first cousin of naval officer

and Conrad Falsen and first cousin once removed of Christian Christoph Andreas Lange and

Jacob Otto Lange Jacob Otto Lange (12 November 1833 – 26 May 1902) was a Norwegian politician. He was born in Stavanger, Norway. He worked for the Kongsberg Silver Mines and served as mayor of Kongsberg 1875–1876. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament ...

. In 1881 in

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he married Elise Kløcker (1857–1934). The couple had one daughter and five sons, although not all survived past infancy. His sister Elisabeth Lange married Alfred Sinding-Larsen and had the children Christian Magnus Falsen Sinding-Larsen, Birger Fredrik Sinding-Larsen,

Holger Sinding-Larsen Peter Andreas Holger Sinding-Larsen (5 July 1869 – 12 December 1938) was a Norwegian architect. He is most associated with his work at Akershus Fortress, where he was a member of the restoration committee and architect from 1905 to 19 ...

and

Kristofer Sinding-Larsen Kristofer Sinding-Larsen. Kristofer Andreas Lange Sinding-Larsen (3 April 1873 – 26 December 1948) was a Norwegian painter. Personal life He was born in Kristiania as a son of jurist and writer Alfred Sinding-Larsen (1839–1911) and Elisabeth ...

Career

He first made his mark while working for the

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from 1878 to 1881. He mainly designed station buildings in

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and

Vestfold Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered th ...

, including

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Stokke Stokke is a town in Sandefjord municipality in Vestfold County, Norway. It lies in-between Sandefjord and Tønsberg, two of Vestfold's largest cities. It was a municipality from 1838 to 2016. The administrative centre of the municipality was the ...

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, and

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. He then returned to

Kristiania Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

, having already drawn

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in 1880. In 1894, he gained fame for the dragon style sanatorium at Holmenkollen sanatorium (today known as Holmenkollen Park Hotel). As city architect from 1898 to 1920, he also drew several schools.Article
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1854 births 1937 deaths Architects from Oslo People from Asker Artists from Oslo Norwegian railway architects {{norway-architect-stub