The building is located on Dag Hammarskjölds Allé, in Indre Østerbro, Copenhagen, and it was opened in May 1954.

[3] Formal relations between the two countries began in 1801, and the first American legation in the Kingdom opened in 1827.

[1] Since then, the American diplomatic mission has remained opened and functioning in Copenhagen except between 1941 and 1945 during World War II.

The legation was raised to embassy status shortly after the war, in 1947, with the arrival of Ambassador Josiah Marvel, Jr.[1] The current building, located in central Copenhagen was designed by two American architects, Ralph Rapson of MIT and John Van der Muelen of the University of Chicago.

[1][4] The modernist design divided contemporary critics, with some regarding it as "sterile" and "melancholy” while others praised its interiors and upheld it as both aesthetically pleasing and functional.