The office of county governor is a government agency of the Kingdom of Norway; the title was Amtmann (before 1919) and then Fylkesmann (after 1919).
When Ole Anton Qvam became governor in 1894, he lived at the Gjævran farm in Egge (now part of Steinkjer Municipality) and he moved the county seat to that location.
[1] The county manor house in Steinkjer, "Eggeli", was designed by the Trondheim architect Axel Guldahl and was built in 1919 under the leadership of Gov.
The state house in Steinkjer was completed in 1988, at the southern end of the city center, and it houses both the county governor and the chambers for the Nord-Trøndelag County Municipality councilors as well as for several other regional state agencies.
The new county governor for Trøndelag will continue to live and work in the town of Steinkjer.