The building was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1945. Notable former residents include the military officer Christian de Meza, composer Niels W. Gade, naval officer Edouard Suenson, ballet master August Bournonville and ballet dancer Juliette Price.

The present building on the site was constructed for krigsråd Johan Jørgen Bruun in 1828–29.

Johan Jørgen Bruun (26 February 1802 – 31 January 1868) was a high-ranking civil servant, who had started his career in the General Staff's Office back in 1810.

He was appointed as krigsråd in 1823, senior clerk (fuldmægtig) in 1831, justitsråd in 1832, principal administrator (ekspeditionssekretær) in 1835 and finally office manager (kontorchef) with title of etatsrådin 1838.

Peder Jacobsen, a workman, resided in the basement with his wife Ane Maria Olsen, their one-year-old daughter, a lodger and two male servants.

Ernst Fredrik Bojesen, a teacher in Borgerdyd School, resided on the third floor with his wife Frederikke Brenøe, their three children (aged three to seven), the 13-year-old lodger Adam Louzau (son of a chamberlain) and one maid.

[5] The military officer Christian de Meza resided in the third floor apartment from 1841 to 1850.

She lived there with her two children (aged 11 and 15), a 34-year-old female teacher, a 25-year-old lodger (student) and one maid at the time of the 1845 census.

[7][8] Peder Pedersen Basnæs, an barkeeper, was a new tenant in the basement at the time of the 1840 census.

The retired ballet dancer and correographer August Bournonville resided in the third floor apartment in 1877.

The rendered façade which is finished with shadow joints on its lower part, features a frieze below the first floor windows and a modillioned cornice below the roof.

A green-painted gate topped by a fanlight is located in the bay furthest to the right in Skindergade.