Fredrik Olaus Lindström (21 March 1847 – 6 November 1919) was a Swedish

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

and artist.

Life

Lindström was born in

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

, Sweden. He studied at the

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in 1865–1873. He worked as an architect in Stockholm 1876–1888, in

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as a city architect in 1888–1893, in

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in 1893–1897, then again in Stockholm. He was hired as city architect in

to lead the rebuilding of the town after the great fire in 1888. There he designed buildings including

Umeå Town Hall Umeå Town Hall () was built after the fire in 1888 that burnt the city to the ground. It was erected on the site where the previous town hall (built in the 17th century) had been located and was completed in 1890. The architect was Fredrik O ...

and

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, among others. Lindström was also a talented artist. A gouache portrait by him of the writer

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(1811–1868) is in the Swedish National Museum.August Blanche
Swedish National Museum, retrieved 3 May 2013

Notes and references

;Notes ;References Swedish architects 1847 births 1919 deaths Architects from Stockholm {{Sweden-architect-stub