Fredrik August Lidströmer (1787–1856) was the son of

Jonas Lidströmer Jonas Lidströmer (1755–1808) was a Swedish inventor and officer in the Swedish Navy. Lidströmer was born in 1755 at Lagfors bruk, Medelpad, and died 1808 in Stockholm. He was a ''colonel-mecanicus'', head of the mechanical state of the Royal S ...

. He was a Swedish architect, artist and marine officer, as well as

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's city architect. Raised in the naval city of

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, he came to Stockholm to help his father with the construction of the

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adjacent to the royal palace, and then continued with the construction of the

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surrounding the waters of the city. He is the architect of Stockholm's oldest official park, the Strömparterren, situated between the Royal Palace in Stockholm and the

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, just opposite the current parliament building. After a short career, he joined King

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's officers and became his first architect for the construction of the original Rosendal Palace, which burned down in 1819. He designed the pedestal and stonework for the statue of

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(the Royal Garden), located in Stockholm, and was the city architect between 1818 and 1824. At the order of the king, he was also responsible for transport and placement of the large porphyry vase at the Rosendal palace. He also drew the blueprints for the new Rosendal palace, which was to a great deal followed by the work of Fredrik Blom. The Queen's pavilion, Drottningpaviljongen, at the present Rosendal palace is entirely the work of Fredrik August Lidströmer, however. The guard's cottage of Vaktstugan is as well. Lidströmer also worked under Baltzar von Platen on the construction of the

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, which connects Sweden's east and west coasts. He also constructed Visby Hospital on

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and the prison of Länsfängelset in

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. His last works were the quays of

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, where

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meet the

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in central Stockholm.T Höijer, ''Stockholms stads drätselkommision 1814-1864'', 1953 He reached the rank of lieutenant colonel ''mechanicus'', a military officer with engineering tasks, and was made a knight in the

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, like his father. His work, including work in

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and

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and original drawings, has been preserved in several archives as well as at the

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in Stockholm.

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