Waagepetersen House

The Waagepetersen House is a listed Neoclassical town mansion located at Store Strandstræde 18 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The house takes its name after royal wine merchant Christian Waagepetersen who owned it from 1811 to 1840.

It was the site of the rectory of the Lord God of Sabaoth Church (Den Herre Zebaoths Kirke).

His early tenants during his ownership included the physician Frederik Ludvig Bang who lived in the building from 1812 to 1814, and the composer, conductor and violinist Claus Schall, who lived in the building from 1822 to 1824 Waagepetersen had a passion for the arts and his home in Store Strandstræde was in the 1820s and 1830s a meeting place for many of the leading figures of the Danish Golden Age.

He was especially fond of music as witnessed by the fact that he named three of his sons after Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Carl Malling (1791-), a senior customs officer, resided with his wife and three unmarried children in the apartment on the second floor.

[4] The company De Forende Papirfabrikker A/S (The United Paper Mills) were based in the building from its foundation in 1889.

The median risalit is not topped by the usual triangular pediment but instead by a three bay wall dormer with a hip roof.

The Waagepetersen House, visible to the far left in c. 1830
Waagepetersen by his desk in his office in Store Strandstræde
A music soirée painted by Wilhelm Marstrand