[1] The city's initial plan was to reserve it for large villas in an attempt to keep wealthy tax-payers within the municipal borders since they were increasingly settling in Frederiksberg or in the northern suburbs.

The grocer and bankier Martin Levin bought a lot on the waterfront and charged the architect Johan Daniel Herholdt with designing a house which was built in 1865–66.

[2] Due to the difficult economic times that followed from Denmark's involvement in the Second Schleswig War, it was the only detached single-family house-with-garden that was built in the area.

[4] It was then owned by the Workers' Cooperative Housing Association (Arbejdernes Andels Boligforening, AAB) until 2011 when it was acquired by the private property investment company Karberghus.

The Levin House is designed in the Historicist style with influence from Italian Renaissance and consists of two stories with a mansard roof over a high cellar.