Bogstad Farm
Classicist manor with period interiors, a Versailles-style ballroom and Norway's first English park.
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This guide to Bogstad Farm in Oslo leaves the ballroom and the landscape park in the background and follows Count Herman Wedel Jarlsberg, son-in-law of Peder Anker and Norway's finance minister in the lean years after eighteen fourteen. It takes you to a courtroom in eighteen twenty-two and to cargoes of dye, arsenic and copper shipped to Amsterdam. Best heard on the gravel paths in front of the main house.
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