The Rhode House (Danish: Den Rhodeske Gård) is a historic property located at the corner of Strandgade (No.

It is believed that the house was built in about 1640 for Nahman Hiort, one of the first councilmen of the new market town which had been incorporated on 8 June 1639.

Mathias Rode resided in the building with his wife Maria Catarina Kalder, their two daughters (aged eight and 11), a clerk, two wine merchant's apprentices, two maids and two caretakers.

[8] The younger son, Andreas Nicolai de Saint-Aubain [da], who had been born in the building on 18 November 1798, would later become a writer, publishing under the pseudonym Carl Bernhard.

another wine merchant, resided on the ground floor with his wife Caroline Frederiche and their three children (aged seven to 12).

[10] Anna Sophie Mariane Bruun, manager of Christianshavn Daughters' School, resided on the first floor with one maid.

[11] Broder Knud Wigelsen, a captain in the Royal Danish Navy, resided on the second floor with his wife Karen Magdalene Fangen, their seven children (aged eight to 18) and one maid.

[17] Frederik Wilhelm Barth, a carpenter, resided in the other ground-floor apartment with his wife and two unmarried children (aged 31 and 33).

Theodor Smauck Lange, a businessman (grosserer=, resided in one of the first-floor apartments with his wife Maria (née Thye), their infant daighter and one maid.

Waywadt, a district physician, resided in the other first-floor apartment with his wife Louise (née Schaltz), their five children (aged seven to 17) and two maids.

[20] Christian Roselvig, a landscape painter, resided in one of the second-floor apartments with the widow Christine Albertus and her two children (aged 12 and 15).

The painter Hans Jørgen Hammer and the sculptor Otto Evens lived together in the other second-floor apartment.

He lived there with his wife Vilhelmine Rosaline Nathalie Steffens (née Flechtner), their five children (aged 11 to 19) and one maid.

Niels Laursen, a proprietor of a coffee shop, resided in the other half of the basement (towards Torvegade) with his wife Thora Sophie Laursen (née Lindorff), his mother-in-law Anna Lindorff, (mée Andersen), a nine-year-old foster daughter and two maids.