The site was in 1689 as No. 219 owned by "kancelliforvalter" Rasmus Rasmussen. The building was together with most of the other buildings in the area destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The property was later acquired by General War Commissioner Stephen Hansen. He commissioned Philip de Lange to construct a new building in 1748. Philip de Lange, whom he knew from the Royal Copenhagen Shooting Society, had most likely already built a new main building at Hellebækgård for him. Hansen had also acquired the adjacent No. 205 in Admiralgade on the other side of the block.