The site is located on a hill just south of Tøyen manor, and was largely undeveloped in the first half of the 1800s, where it then became a sort of suburb of Oslo.
On Enerhaugen were new houses built, water supply was improved and the narrow, crooked streets were made navigable.
A new school was built on Enerhaugen in 1867[3] Due to housing shortages in the interwar years, the Oslo City Council began working on planning the construction of new homes.
During the demolition work was found iron bolts from the time when boats were moored at Enerhaugen before the uplift caused the fjord withdrew.
Five of the old houses were moved and rebuilt at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History and furnished the basis of the census of 1865, 1891 and opened to the public in 1969.