Lillienhoff Palace

The Lillienhoff Palace (Swedish Lillienhoffska palatset) is a building located on a corner of the large square Medborgarplatsen in southcentral Stockholm, Sweden.

It was built in 1668–1670 by merchant Joachim Pötter (1630–1676), who was ennobled in 1668 under the surname of Lillienhoff, based upon blueprints were by architect Johan Tobias Albinus (ca 1635-1679).

[1] [2] The facades are decorated with motifs from Dutch baroque, as was common in Stockholm's palace architecture in the middle of the 17th century.

The palace was purchased by Great Britain in 1723 to serve as its embassy in Sweden and has thus also been called the English Building.

After that usage, it served as the poor house for Catherine's Parish until 1888, and was bought by the City of Stockholm in 1900.