The Lihme House (

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: Lihmes Gård) is a Neoclassical property located at

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18 in central

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. Restaurant Feist is located in the ground floor of the building while the IT consultancy Nine occupies the upper floors. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918 but delisted on 20 September 2016.

History

The building was constructed in 1768 for ''

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''-distiller Christian Rasmussen Lihme. It is believed that the architect was Hans Næss (1723–1795). The actor Adolph Rosenkilde was between 1852 and 1860 one of the residents in the building. He was from 1856 associated with the

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on the other side of the square. The composer

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lived in the building in 1866–67. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places on 23 December 1918 but delisted on 20 September 2016.

Architecture

The four-storey building is designed in the

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. It is five bays wide and has a three-bay median risalit decorated with a relief depicting

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between the second and third floor.

Today

Restaurant Fiat is based in the ground floor of the building. The IT consultancy Nine occupies the upper floors.

References

External links

Restaurant Geist

1880 census
{{Copenhagen historic houses Houses in Copenhagen Delisted buildings and structures in Copenhagen Municipality Residential buildings completed in 1768 1879 establishments in Denmark