[3][4] After a short career, he joined King Charles XIV John's officers and became his first architect for the construction of the original Rosendal Palace, which burned down in 1819.
He designed the pedestal and stonework for the statue of Charles XIII in Kungsträdgården (the Royal Gardden), located in Stockholm, and was the city architect between 1818 and 1824.
The Queen's pavilion, Drottningpaviljongen, at the present Rosendal palace is entirely the work of Fredrik August Lidströmer, however.
[6] Lidströmer also worked under Baltzar von Platen on the construction of the Göta Canal, which connects Sweden's east and west coasts.
[7][8] He reached the rank of lieutenant colonel mechanicus, a military officer with engineering tasks, and was made a knight in the Order of Vasa, like his father.