Gathenhielmska House
Mid-1700s wooden townhouse with rediscovered painted interiors, now artists' studios and concerts.
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This guide to Gathenhielmska House in Gothenburg's Majorna district starts with a privateer, Lars Gathenhielm, and a name that does not quite belong to the house wearing it. It moves through the widow and heirs who held the land, a rope-maker's family who kept the house for generations, and a renovation in nineteen sixteen. Best heard from the square in front of the wooden facade.
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