Vestergade 7, Copenhagen

Vestergade 7 is a Neoclassical building complex situated close to Gammeltorv in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark.

The property was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1991. Notable former residents include the master builder Johan Boye Junge and archeologist Peter Oluf Brøndsted.

The adjacent building at Vestergade 5 is also owned by the Danish Institute for Study Abroad.

The property was either before or fairly shortly after its completion sold to wine merchant Peder Johannes Friedenreich .

[3] Isaak Samuel Benners, a plantation owner, resided in the building with his wife Marie Christine Appelbye, their five children (aged two to nine), a female tutor (Francoise), a female cook, a maid, a nanny, a male servant and a caretaker.

Johan Boye Junge (1735-1807), a master builder and chief of the Civilian Infantry Corps, resided in the building until his death in 1807.

[5] Friederich's property was home to 22 residents in two households in two households at the 1840 census.Peder Johannes Friedenreich and Ane Ortholm resided on the ground floor and second floor with their five children (aged 26 to 39), Friedenreich's susters Caroline and Ingeborg, 32-year-old Margrethe Krøyer (teacher), an apprentice, a male servant, a maid and a lodger.

[6] Peter Bentsen, an official from the Royal Greenland Yrading Department with title of justitsråd, resided on the first floor with his wife Pauline Cecilie Bentsen (née Smith), their four children (aged 19 to 24) and two maids.

[8] Jens Emil Damkie, a lawyer and politician, resided in the building with his wife Augusta Christiane Damkier, their five children (aged one to eight), one male servant and two maids.

[13] Around the turn of the century, the newspaper København, which was founded by Ove Rode in 1889, was based in the building.

Other tenants in the building complex around that time included Encken's Bureau, an adverting agency, and Osvar Andersen's coffee shop Sirocco.

No. 234 seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of Copenhagen's West Quarter, 1757.
Vesterhade 7 seen on a detail from one of Berggreen's block plans of Western Quarter, 1886-88.
The building photographed by Johannes Hauerslev .