Stockmanngården

Stockmanngården (Stockmann House) was a large building in central Skien, known as the birthplace of the playwright Henrik Ibsen.

It was the city's most central townhouse, and had ten full rooms as well as loft, stables, barn and other outbuildings.

In the 1825 census the two brothers lived in Stockmanngården with a maid named Marthe Isachsdatter, aged 30.

In December 1825 Knud Ibsen married his stepfather's niece (his brother's first cousin) Marichen Altenburg, who then moved in with them.

On the ground floor the brothers Ibsen/Paus ran an assorted retail trade for wine, yarn and cotton goods, canvas, ivory chamber, mirrors, glass and brass objects, optical articles and foam pipes.