The Building is located on Bredgade, opposite Dronningens Tværgade for which it serves as a point de vue.

The present building on the site was constructed in conjunction with the development of the new Frederiksstaden district.

It was designed by Johann Gottfried Rosenberg under the supervision of Nicolai Eigtved who had also conceived the district plan.

[1] It was built as a home for the wealthy merchant and politician Christian August von Berckentin who had just been ennobled with the title of count.

In the nineteenth century, the mansion was occupied by various wealthy families, notably by Rudolph Puggaard who received there the artists of the Danish Golden Age.