Restaurant Ved Kajen (Danish: By the Quay) is located on the ground floor; its name refers to the title of an Osvald Helmuth song.

Toldbodgade was also continued southwards from Sankt Annæ Plads to Nyhavn across the land.

The property was at some point acquired by brewer Poul Christensen Hvidsten (Widsten, 1712–1791).

The owner resided in the building with his wife Gunnild Cecilie Hvidsteen (née Dybe), their three-year-old son Lars Christian, two brewery workers (one of them an apprentice), a caretaker, a coachman and two maids.

Daniel Friederich Kiølmen, a ship captain, resided in the building with his wife Maria Titgen, their four children (aged two to 16) and two maids.

[3] Ole Bonsøe, a beer seller (øltapper) resided in the building with his wife Helwig Sophie Lars Datter, their two children (aged four and seven) and a maid.

[4] After her husband's death, Gunnild Cecilie Hvidsteen married the scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin in 1792.

At the time of the 1801 census, Johnson Thorkelin and Gunhild Hvidsten resided in the building with their 11-year-old son Frederik Stephan Thorkelin, Gunhild Cecilie Hvidsten's daughter Jensenius Johan Hvidtsteen, two more children (aged three and four), a brewery worker and three maids.

[5] Hans Lindholm [da], a naval officer and adjutant general, resided in the building with his wife Elisabeth Reinhardine Fabricius-Tengnagel, their three children (aged one to five), a chamber maid (husjomfru), a housekeeper and two maids.

1811), a lieutenant and painter, resided in the building with his wife Anine Holgine Marie (née Jørgensen), their three children (aged two to six), a male servant and two maids.

[14] Victor Christian Frederik Bondesen, a chief physician (Doctor of Medicine), resided on the first floor with his wife Rebekka Tilaine Bondesen (née Baumann), four of their children (aged 17 to 27), a female cook and a maid.

Founded by Louis Hansen in 1875, it was from 1919 owned by Hans Jacobsen (21 November 1872–8 March 1949) and A. Saabye.

It was after Jacobsen's death in 1949 continued by his two children, Herman Jacobser (born 1899) and daughter J. Højby Hansen (b.