Lilla Skuggan

[2] The main house at Lilla Skuggan was later home to the architects Axel Nyström and Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander, the artist Julius Kronberg, and the financier Ivar Kreuger, who also owned the nearby Villa Ugglebo, a house which was built in the late 19th century by the architect Ferdinand Boberg and his wife, the artist Anna Boberg, and after them was the summer residence of the crown prince, the later King Gustaf VI Adolf.

The headland was originally the site of a gate in the fence enclosing the royal park which gave its name to Djurgården; in winter a road led across the ice-covered Lilla Värtan from there to Roslagen and Bogesundslandet.

In 1788 the king's secretary, Johan Platin, received permission to build a summer residence near the beach there, with the royal huntsman Olof Bures having the right to use some rooms in the winter half of the year.

She had inherited considerable wealth and, calling the existing property "so miserable, hemmed about with trees and rock-strewn that it could not be put to any purpose", had the house remodelled for 1,300 riksdaler.

Scholander's daughter Ellen married the artist Julius Kronberg,[9] who became a permanent resident of Lilla Skuggen and had a studio built there in 1889 to his own design; it was completed in 1912 by the architect Jacob J:son Gate.

That year the financier Ivar Kreuger bought Ugglebo as well as the rest of Lilla Skuggen; under his ownership the buildings acquired substantially the appearance they have today.

In 1940 Count Fabian Wrede and his wife Elsa became the new owners of Lille Skuggan; they later transferred possession to their daughter Agneta, who was married to Lars Evers.

The main house (Lilla Skuggans väg 73) stands highest on the slope and is largest, with 276 square metres (2,970 sq ft) of living space.