Ferdinand Vilhelm Jensen (27 March 1837 – 15 April 1890) was a Danish Historicist architect.
Jensen was born in Copenhagen on 27 March 1837. He enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1854, winning the Academy’s small silver medal in 1859, the large silver medal in 1860 and finally the small gold medal in 1869.
Jensen’s first commissions were the Methodist Jerusalem Church in Copenhagen and several private residential buildings. In the 1870s, he collaborated with architect Vilhelm Petersen (1830–1913) on several projects including Søtorvet for the Copenhagen Building Company (Det Kjøbenhavnske Bygge-Selskab) . In the beginning of the 1860s, he taught at Copenhagen Technical College and he was building inspector in Frederiksberg from 1869-74. In 1867, he moved to Hamburg where he designed the gymnasium (Hansehalle) and a number of private homes. In 1882, he returned to Copenhagen where he continued his work for a few years. He died on 15 April 1890 and is buried in Solbjerg Cemetery.
Selected works
- Jerusalem Church, Rigensgade, Copenhagen (1863)
- Brønnum House, Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen (1866)
- Nivaagaard, Nivå (1880–81)
- Kingosg. 2/Vesterbrogade 106B, Copenhagen (1884–86)
- Bredgade 63-65 (1886–87)
- Abel Cathrinesgade 5-11, Copenhagen (1887–88) [not sure which building]
- Petersborg, Trianglen, Copenhagen (1888–90)
- Eriksgade 7-9, 11-13, 15
- Eskildsgade 33-35, 37, Halmtorvet 44 (1888–90)
- Hansehalle, Hamburg, Germany [?]
- With Vilhelm Petersen
- Søtorvet, Copenhagen
- Fr.borggade 43, 54
- Gothersgade 175, 160, Copenhagen
- Nørre Søgade 5-7, Copenhagen
- Vendersgade 33, 28, Copenhagen
Kastellet and the Fortification Ring, Copenhagen, Denmark
Københavns Toldbod – Copenhagen Custom Tax Buildings
Københavns Frihavn – Copenhagen Freeport
Christiansborg Slot – Christiansborg Castle
Frederiksberg Palace, Frederiksberg City Hall / Command Central
King of the hill: Elephants, elegance and 170 years of Carlsberg
Retired crane becomes luxury-retreat
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Nivaagaard is striking. It reminds me of a spot I spent a lot of time in from my youth.
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Nice, it does look a little like an English manor house.
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A dite. It reminds me of a spot off the coast, island county. A lot of the old family houses were yellow.
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I looked up island county Maine and found some nice houses with water around and light houses. Looks great.
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It is. It’s like another world. On Chebeague Island, to draw it up, there’s still an Island Schoolhouse apart from Portland. I think a lot of the islands have them. Of course the libtard papers are coming for them and trying to imply islands are racist.
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lol. Everything is racist nowadays.
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Also, it’s likely nothing more than Bader-Meinhof Effect but I been seeing a lot of Jensen placenames; Jensen Road, Jensen House etc. You didn’t invade and not tell me, did you?
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You will know soon enough!
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I believe, that Jensen is the most used last name in Denmark.
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See, frequency bias. Not so common in Maine however, though those few Danes to have settled would have I’m sure been more likely to use the name.
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