Belvedere is a Neoclassical country house located at Strandvejen 407 in Klampenborg, Gentofte Municipality, some 15 kilometres north of central Copenhagen, Denmark.
He had just returned from the Danish West Indies where he had served as governor-general and emancipated slavery immediately prior to his departure from the islands on 14 July 1848.
Peter von Scholten was also the owner of a property at Bredgade 45 in Copenhagen.
[2] His wife Lise died in 1949 and a few years later he moved to Altona where he lived with his daughter and son-in-law until his death in 1854.
One of Belvedere's later owners was the financier and industrialist Isaac Wulff Heyman.