The first main building on the estate was built in 1815 to designs by Christian Frederik Hansen but it was extended in 1904 and adapted by the architect Louis Hygom in 1920 for the businessman William Bendix.

He had served as a customs officer in the Danish West Indies but later settled as a merchant in Copenhagen.

He sold the estate to Georg Flemming Windersleff in 1832 and would later purchase Sophienberg and Nygård at Kongens Lyngby.

He managed Hegnsholt and Vandsbæk in a partnership with his son Thor Grüner He expanded Hauch's main building in 1894.

His holdings comprised Eliselund at Kolding, Dronninggaard and Frederikslund[5] at Holte, Kidrup Gaard at Ringsted, Sæbygaard at Tissøand Haunsø Møllegård /mill and inn)[6] Hegnsholt was in 1916 sold to the engineer and politician Villars.