A building type unique to Gothenburg, Sweden, combining a brick ground storey with two wooden upper storeys, which arose when the county government overruled the city building council's limit on wooden houses.
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Source Wikipedia: Landshövdingehus
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City bylaws in the 19th century ruled that houses made of wood could be a maximum of two storeys high
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a type of building unique to Gothenburg, Sweden
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was built 1875 in the district of Annedal
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However, one building association tried to circumvent the rule and submitted drawings for a building with the ground storey made of brick and two upper storeys made of wood.
Associated With: Timber, Lead section
However, one building association tried to circumvent the rule and submitted drawings for a building with the ground storey made of brick and two upper storeys made of wood.
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