The Danish Authors' Society is now based in the property whose meeting facilities are also rented out for events.

The first house at the site was probably built shortly after Christianshavn was established on reclaimed land in 1617-22.

Abraham Lehn, a wealthy merchant, shipowner and director of the Danish East India Company, constructed a new building on the site in 1703.

Peter Tordenskjold, a friend of his, had his first home on land since his childhood on the first floor up until his early death in 1720.

In 1732, Lehn sold the house in Strandgade to Christian Ditlev Reventlow, whose son, Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow, a key figure in the Danish agricultural reforms of the 1770s, was born there in 1748.

From 1755, the building served as headquarters for the Danish West India Company.

Else Fenger resided in the building with her eight children (aged 11 to 26), a housekeeper, a caretaker associated the adjacent Frederick's German Church, a coachman and three maids.

[6] Caroline Hasberg, a widow employed with needlework, resided on the ground floor with her three children (aged four to seven).

[13] Dorthea Schleisner, an "institute manager" (institutbestyrerinde), resided on the ground floor with her three children (aged nine to 12) and one maid.

[16] Caroline Marie Hasberg, a widow employed with needlework, resided on the ground floor of the same side wing with her three children (aged 13 to 16).

[17] Helene Fick, another widow, resided in one of the side wings with the portrait painter Carl Ferdinand Pedersen (1803-1875) and the needleworker Cathrine Mørk.

In 1983, the Danish Authors' Society rented the ground floor of the main wing.

The half-timbered side wing was originally only one storey high but later extended with an extra floor.

[24] The Danish Authors' Society's premises on the ground floor are decorated with murals from 1705 by Hendrik Krock featuring subjects from the Old Testament and mythology.