Gammel Strand 40

Gammel Strand 40 and Læderstræde 9 were both built in 1799–1801 for court engraver David Ahron Jacobsen after the previous buildings at the site had been destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795. Jacobsen designed all the buildings himself. The narrow courtyard was originally divided in two by a warehouse but it was demolished in 1958.[1]

The archeologist Peter Oluf Brøndsted was from 1815 to 1818 a resident in the building.[1] Georg Carstensen, founder of Tivoli Gardens, had just moved into one of the apartments when his amusement park opened in 1843, Jacob Davidsen (1813–1891), a writer and editorial secretary of Flyveposten, was among the resident in 1850. Peter Faber, inspector at the College of Advanced Technology, was a resident from 1750 to 1858.[1] Ditlev Gothard Monrad, who was Bishop of Lolland-Falster as well as an MP, was a resident in the building in 1853. Henrik Cacling, a renowned Politiken journalist and co-founder of Dansk Journalistforbund, lived in the apartment on the first floor in 1890. The writer n Kjeld Abell was a resident in the building in around 1938.[1]

Fammel Strand 40 consists of four storeys over a raised cellar and is five bays wide. It is constructed in red brick and stands on a granite plinth. A two-bay gateway is located in the right-hand side of the building. A commemorative plaque above the gate commemorates that Georg Carstensen lived in the building when he opened Tivoli Gardens. The facade is finished by a dentilated cornice. A side wing, six bays long plus a canted bay in each end, projects from the rear side of the building and connects to a small two-bay rear wing in the other end.[2]