The name referred to one of the first outdoor street lamps in Copenhagen which was situated outside a midwife's practice to make it easier for customers to find their way ind the dark.

The West Line towards Roskilde crossed Lampevej at Nordre Fasanvej from 1864 when Copenhagen Central Station was moved to a new location.

Krystalværket, a plant producing ice for cooling, opened in the area in 1914 and Solbjerg Fairty established there in 1925.

Frederiksberg Gasworks, Krystalværket, Finsen Power Station and Solbjerg Dairy all closed in the 1960s and most of their buildings were demolished.

61-71), a Functionalist apartment building from 1930–31 design by Palle Suenson and |Thorvald Dreyer, is one of the earliest examples of the bay window-balcony typology which would become emblematic of Danish residential architecture of the 1930s and 1940s.

The architecture is strongly influenced by the Bedre Byggeskik, a Danish version of the Arts and Crafts movement.