page_title: Frederiksholms Kanal 16–18
section_title: The Plessen Mansion
hierarchical_section_title: Frederiksholms Kanal 16–18 / History / The Plessen Mansion
caption_attribution_description: English: The Plessen Mansion where Frederiksholms Kanal 16-20 is today in Copenhagen, Denmark.
context_page_description: Frederiksholms Kanal 16–18 are two almost identical listed properties overlooking Frederiksholm Canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The Victorian Home, a 15-room, late 19th-century bourgeois home now operated as a historic house museum by the National Museum of Denmark, is located on the second floor of No. 18. The Attorney general is based at No. 16. Both buildings were listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the Danish Heritage Agency on 6 April 1969.
context_section_description: The Plessen family constructed a town mansion at the site in the 18th century. The Plassen Mansion (Danish: Det Plessenske Palæ) was a two-storey Baroque style building.
  The building was later known as the Knuthske Hotel (The Knuth Hotel). In 1779 it was acquired by a merchant named Lycke. It was later purchased by Caspar Peter Bügel. The next owner,  Jens Lund, another merchant, constructed a couple of warehouses around the corner in Ny Vestergade. A free mason's lodge, Zorobabel af Nordstjernen, was based in the building in the 1790s. In the middle of the 19th century it had fallen into despair
caption: The Plessen Mansion
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