page_title: Landshövdingehus
hierarchical_section_title: Landshövdingehus
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo: Thomas Höjemo. Café Zenit in Majorna, Göteborg. Built 1894.
context_page_description: Landshövdingehus is a building type unique to the Swedish city of Gothenburg. 19th century city bylaws ruled that houses made of wood could be of maximum of two storeys high, in order to protect against fires. However, one building association tried to circumvent the rule and submitted drawings for a building with the ground storey built of brick and two upper storeys of wood. The city building council did not accept the application, but the county government overruled them and the landshövdingehus—"governor house"—was born.
  The very first building of this kind was built 1875 in the city district of Annedal. It was demolished in the redevelopment of the 1970s, but many other examples of these buildings remain today.
context_section_description: Landshövdingehus (Swedish: [ˈlândsˌhœvdɪŋɛˌhʉːs]) is a building type unique to the Swedish city of Gothenburg.  19th century city bylaws ruled that houses made of wood could be of maximum of two storeys high, in order to protect against fires. However, one building association tried to circumvent the rule and submitted drawings for a building with the ground storey built of brick and two upper storeys of wood. The city building council did not accept the application, but the county government overruled them and the landshövdingehus—"governor house"—was born.
  The very first building of this kind was built 1875 in the city district of Annedal. It was demolished in the redevelopment of the 1970s, but many other examples of these buildings remain today.
caption: This landshövdingehus at Allmännavägen 11 in Majorna was built in 1894.  The original detailing is largely intact, although the windows were exchanged during a renovation in 1982. It is more luxurious than normal because of the corner placement. The building features corner towers with tower spires and bay windows. The ground floor was originally used by a department store, but is now occupied by a café.
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