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Villa Filipstad

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Villa Filipstad is a nineteenth-century villa at Munkedamsveien 62 in Oslo, Norway, completed in 1864 for banker Jorgen Haslev Heftye, whose family had owned the site since 1805, to a design by architect Georg Andreas Bull. Set prominently atop a crag in the Filipstad district, the villa has been compared to the Oscarshall mansion across the Frognerkilen inlet. From 1909 the Norwegian State Railways used it as the residence of its director-general, and it has since housed the Norwegian Directorate for Public Libraries and the company Mantena under the management of the Bane NOR subsidiary Rom Eiendom. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Oslo Municipality, Norway 3
Completed Year
1864 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
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Villa, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, located there.
Sources
1. Villa Filipstad (Wikipedia)
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Villa Filipstad is a nineteenth-century villa at Munkedamsveien 62 in Oslo, Norway, completed in 1864 for banker Jorgen Haslev Heftye, whose family had owned the site since 1805, to a design by architect Georg Andreas Bull. Set prominently atop a crag in the Filipstad district, the villa has been compared to the Oscarshall mansion across the Frognerkilen inlet. From 1909 the Norwegian State Railways used it as the residence of its director-general, and it has since housed the Norwegian Directorate for Public Libraries and the company Mantena under the management of the Bane NOR subsidiary Rom Eiendom.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1864)
    completion_date/completed = 1864
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2. Villa Filipstad (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Wikidata item Q7930320, instance of (P31): villa
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3. Villa Filipstad (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Oslo Municipality, Norway
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Oslo Municipality, Norway
Wikidata item Q7930320, property P131/P17 (location): Oslo Municipality, Norway
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