Henrik Thrap-Meyer

Lillesand church

Grimstad church

Victoria Terrasse in Oslo

Henrik Thrap-Meyer (31 July 1833 – 29 December 1910) was a Norwegian architect.

Career

Henrik Thrap-Meyer was born in Bergen, Norway. He was educated at Polytechnicum in Hannover and Zurich between the years 1855-1860. He was a teacher at Bergen's Drawing School from 1860 to 1863. He is most commonly associated with his work on Victoria Terrasse, a building complex in the Ruseløkka district of central Oslo, which was built during the 1880s. The complex now houses the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1886 to 1904 he was engaged as the architect in the development of the hospital for the Lovisenberg Deaconess College (Lovisenberg diakonale høgskole), a private college for nursing in the district of St. Hanshaugen in Oslo. ^[1][2]

Works

• Victoria Terrasse and Ruseløkkbasarene, 1881–90
• Onsøy Church, 1877
• Kristiansand Cathedral, 1880–85
• Major renovation of Porsgrunn City Hall, 1882
• Kirkelandet kirke, Kristiansund, 1875–78 (burned 1940)
• Grimstad Church, 1877–81
• Lillesand Church, 1889

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