It was later owned by Jacob Benjamin Italiaender, a Sphardi Jew, who established a tobacco manufactory as well as a private synagogue in the yard.

He was rewarded with a number of royal fiefs, including Jungshoved on Zealand and Malmøhus, Lundegård, Dalby Kloster and Højby in Scania.

Frederik Holmsted [da], who served as director of the Danish West Indies Company, was also a resident of the building.

On 14 November, he was under the company name Jacob Italiener Benjamin & Gebroders granted a royal privilege to establish a tobacco factory in Christianshavn and Aalborg.

Marie Christine Mortensen (née Hansen) resided on the ground floor with her four children (aged 12 to 17), two unmarried sisters-in-law and two maids.

[9] Gerhard Heiberg Wolff, a merchant (grosserer) associated with the Royal Greenland Trading Department, resided on the first floor with his wife Ane Magrete Hansen, their three children (aged 12 to 22) and one maid.

Marie Mortensen was still running the family's haulier's business from her home on the ground floor.

[14] Henrik Nikolai Krøyer (1799-1870) resided on the first floor with his wife Cecilie (née Gjesdal) and one maid.

[15] Johan Tarnen, helmsman of the lightvessel Dragen, resided on the second floor with his wife Suise Lihme, their one-year-old daughter and one maid.

[16] Carl Nielsen, a workman, resided in the basement with his wife Marie Christensen, their three children (aged two to five) and one maid.

[17] Niels Christiansen, an employee in the haulier's business, resided on the ground floor of the rear wing with his wife Luise Marie Nielsen and their four-year-old daughter.

[18] Søren Poulsen, another employee in the haulier's business, resided on the first floor of the rear wing with his wife Dorthea Andersen and their three children (aged one to 10).

Marie Christine Mortensen resided on the ground floor with three of her children, three coachmen and two maids.

[22] Niels Jensen, an employee in the haulier's business, resided in the basement with his wife Ellen Marie, their two-year-old son and one maid.

[24] Christian Ludvig Lundbye [da] (1812-1873), a military officer and later Defence Minister, was among the residents of the building in around 1850.

Søren Carl Mortensen, who had now taken over the family business, resided on the ground floor with his wife Adamine Sophie (née Hviid), their three children (aged one to five), his sister-in-law Marie Hansine Hviid, one male servant and two maids.

[27] Jens Christian Christensen, an innkeeper (værtshusholder), resided in the basement with his wife Karen Jensdatter, their two children (aged one and four) and two lodgers (coachmen in Mortensen's business).

Søren Carl Mortensen resided on the ground floor with his wife, four daughters and one maid.

It was originally crowned by a Dutch gable but it was changed to its current appearance in connection with a renovation in 1817–18.

The plastered facade was changed to undressed brick in connection with a renovation following a bombing in 1943 (during World War II).

One of the rooms on the first floor features decorations possibly created by the painter Nicolai Abildgaard.

It is constructed with black-painted timber framing and undressed yellow brick infills towards the street.

The facade is crowned by a two-bay, gabled wall dormer with an intact pulley beam.

The steep red tile roof is pierced by a tall chimney on the side that faces Strandgade.