Haldor Larsen Børve (19 August 1857 – 11 August 1933) was an

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from

Ullensvang Municipality Ullensvang is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the town of Odda. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Lofthus, Utne, Vikebygd, ...

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county,

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. Børve started an architectural practice in

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in 1889 and designed numerous buildings in

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and

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counties, many of them influenced by

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and the Nordic

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. Among his best-known works are

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from 1894 and Porsgrunn City Hall from 1904/1905.

Background

Børve was born in Ullensvang in 1857 to

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Lars Jørgensen Børve (1815–91) and Anna Haldorsdatter Eidnes (1822–1911). He attended Trondheim Technical Vocational School () from 1877 to 1880, after which he worked for a few years as a junior architect. His only major project during this time was managing the restoration of Ullensvang Church in

from 1883 to 1886, a project led by

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architect

Christian Christie Eilert Christian Brodtkorb Christie (24 December 1832 – 13 September 1906) was a Norway, Norwegian architect. Personal life He was born in Bergen as a son of customs officer Werner Hosewinckel Christie (1785–1872) and Hansine Langsted (1802 ...

. In 1887, he pursued further education at the Polytechnic Institute of Hannover in

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. He was among the last of the great Norwegian architects to attend the architectural school in

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, which had greatly influenced Norwegian architecture in the latter half of the 19th century. He finished his studies in 1889, and with the help of a government grant for engineers, he moved to

and started his own

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that same year. In 1890, he married Kristine Jørstad (1861–1941).

Career

Haldor Larsen Børve's first work under the new firm was the Borgestad school (''Borgestad skole'') built in

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in 1889. The building was bestowed upon the local

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by local shipping

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and future

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. Though the building has long since been demolished, it was once a grand three-story stone building in the

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style, a symmetrical design with steep

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s on both ends which featured Gothic window designs and pointed

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es.Borgestad skole
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styles. He was also a great proponent of

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and often integrated elements from

and

into his work, as exemplified by

, Børve's best-known work. In addition to his architectural practice, Børve was also the

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and later

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at Porsgrunn Technical Evening School (). He was active as an architect until the early 1920s, and died in 1933 at Porsgrunn, aged 75. Following Børve's death, his daughter, architect Alfhild Børve, took over her father's practice along with Haldor Larsen Børve's assistant Ødegaard. The next year, Johannes Laurentius Borchsenius (1903–2003) took over as co-owner with Alfhild Børve, and the firm changed its name to Børve Borchsenius Arkitekter. Borchsenius was an architect from Skien who studied at the

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. He was responsible for the construction of

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for Norwegian

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s in

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during

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and, following the war, the reconstruction of areas in

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county such as

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and

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. The newly named firm designed several buildings in the Porsgrunn area using functionalist principles, including the

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just across from Børve's

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. The company still exists today under the same name, making it one of the longest-running architectural firms in Norway.

Major works

Croftholmen

With the exception of Gunnar Knudsen's Borgestad School in 1889, the mansion on Croftholmen (now Croftholmen High School) in

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was Børve's first major work under his new firm. The work was commissioned by Frederic Croft in 1890. Croft was a very wealthy

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whose father, William Croft, was a mine owner in

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who also had a high position in "The Norway Mining Timber Company" in

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. Frederic Croft had trained in England as an

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, but in 1870 he took one of his father's boats and sailed away to Norway, reportedly to forget a painful love story from back home. Croft also had a reputation of being a very eccentric figure. He was among the first people to own an

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in the county, and one story involved him being ticketed for scaring the horses while driving through Porsgrunn. The

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issued him a fine of twenty kroner, and Croft handed him forty kroner instead. When told again that the fine was only twenty kroner, Croft replied, "But I will also return home." After considering several properties on which to build his

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, including on the island of Bjørkøya in Langesundfjord, Croft settled on the island Gjermundsholmen in

, for which he paid 10,000 kroner. Before Croft bought the island, Gjermundsholmen was densely forested and a popular location for

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, and it allegedly received its name from a man who was killed by vagrants there. Croft commissioned Børve to build the main house on the island in 1890. While digging the building's foundation, the workers found a human skeleton that they estimated could have been there for ten or fifteen years. The construction was led by master builder Sigurdsen from Skien and it took 25 builders until 1895 to complete. Since 1957 the building has been used as a school, first as a navigational school for sailors and now as a

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. The building has a distinctive Dragestil

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and is painted dark red, originally with a high-quality paint imported from England. It exhibits many features of the style, including

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adorned with dragon heads and a roof with several decorative spires. The building has an area of and has two floors and a well-secured

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. When Croft lived there the home was lavishly furnished, and some of the pieces of

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can now be found on display at the Porsgrunn City Museum. The

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was furnished in the

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style, while the

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had heavy brown leather chairs and the hall included some pieces of antique Elizabethan furniture.

Customs House

Dalen Hotel

Vår Frue Church

Skotfoss Church

The initiative to build a church in

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was taken by Gustav Fangel Smidt, who managed the nearby

Skotfoss Bruk Skotfoss BrukUnion Nytt nr.39 1-1959 April 1959 print: Wittusen & Jensen A.S. Oslo Norway was a paper mill located in Skotfoss, Skien, Norway. The mill was part of the Union Co., founded in 1890. It closed production on 31 December 1986. The first ...

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. At the time, the townspeople of Skotfoss and Dalsbygda had to travel many miles west along the banks of

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to Melum Church (''Melum kirke'') in order to attend

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. The founders of Union Co. (later the

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), who owned Skotfoss Bruk, agreed to donate 1,000 kroner each towards the construction of the new church, and the remaining 38,000 of the 42,000 kroner cost was split between

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r Thor Eger and Rittmester Heftye. The church's site, located on Sandåsen near the entrance to Løveid Canal, was donated by the

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of the Norsjø–Skien Canal. Haldor Børve designed the building, and planning and

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y work was completed by workers from

Porsgrunn City Hall

Timeline of works

Churches

* 1883–6: Restoration of Ullensvang Church,

Ullensvang Ullensvang is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the Odda (town), town of Odda. Some o ...

* 1891: Langangen Church,

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* 1899:

* 1899–1900:

Skotfoss Church Skotfoss Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Skien Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Skotfoss. It is one of the churches for the ''Gulset og Skotfoss'' parish which is part of the Skien ...

* 1905: Herre Church,

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* 1906–7: Immanuel Church, Christopher Hvidts plass 6,

Sandefjord Sandefjord () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Vestfold. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Sandefjord ...

* 1915: Strandlykkja Chapel,

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* 1915:

Kviteseid Church Kviteseid Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Kviteseid Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Kviteseid. It is the main church for the Kviteseid parish which is part of the Øvre Telemark p ...

, Kviteseid (village) * 1916:

Fjågesund Church Fjågesund Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Kviteseid Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Fjågasund. It is one of the churches in the Kviteseid parish which is part of the Øvre Telemar ...

Fjågesund Fjågesund is a village in Kviteseid Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The village is located at the west end of the lake Flåvatn and the southeastern end of the lake Kviteseidvatnet, about mid-way along the Telemark Canal. It is located ...

* 1916–18: Sandefjord Methodist Church, Sandefjord

Businesses and public buildings

* 1889: Borgestad School,

* 1891:

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* 1891–92: Fredensborg Woman's Home, Porsgrunn * 1893: Meat inspection building, d * 1894:

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* 1895: Porsgrunn Swimming Hall, Porsgrunn * 1897: Gjerpen

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* 1899–1900: Sandefjord Middle School, Sandefjord * 1899–1901: Porsgrunn Dairy Company, Porsgrunn * 1900–1901: Porsgrunn Fire Station & Power Station, Porsgrunn * 1903–8: Sandefjord Retirement Home, Bjerggaten 38, Sandefjord * 1904–5: Porsgrunn City Hall, Porsgunn * 1905–6: Hans Cappelens Minne Orphanage, Skien * 1904: Dyrings Bookstore at Storgaten 154, Porsgrunn * 1907–9: Bratsberg County Hospital, Skien * 1908–12: Sandefjord ''Aktie-Kreditbanken''

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, Rådhusgaten 11, Sandefjord * 1911: Porsgrunn Lutheran Hospital, Porsgrunn * 1912: Årlifoss Power Plant,

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* 1915: Hardanger

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* 1915-20: County Hospital for Aust-Agder,

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* 1918: Haukerød School, Sandefjord * 1922: Holt Agricultural School,

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* 1923: Foldsæ Agricultural School,

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Residences

* 1890–1895: Croftholmen mansion,

* 1891: Børve's personal villa, Aallsgate 13,

* 1891: Aallsgate 15, Porsgrunn * 1891:

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on Helleland farm,

* 1894: Hjertnespromenaden 3,

(town), * 1896: Holengården villa, Jernbanegaten 6, Porsgrunn * 1906: J.C. Knudsen's villa at Øvre Frednes, Porsgrunn

References

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