100-year-old Housingcooperative
Built 1911-13 for self-sufficient single women by a group of women, one of them Julia von Bahr, CEO in the housing company Hemtrefnad. Prominent men in Gothenburg also bought shares to support the company Hemtrefnad. A lot of women had started to work and had difficulties to afford an apartment. The building contained more than 50 apartments, most of them a room with a small kitchen. On the top floor there was a restaurant and a lounge, in the basement laundry and bath. The apartments were sought after and there was constantly a queue. Many of the tenants were female teachers and there were special rooms to give private lessons. The building was designed in national romantic style by the architects Hans Hedlund and his son Björner Hedlund.
In 1972 the times had changed and the building was rebuilt to student housing.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemtrevnad_(byggnad) (website in Swedish)
100-year-old Housingcooperative
Built 1911-13 for self-sufficient single women by a group of women, one of them Julia von Bahr, CEO in the housing company Hemtrefnad. Prominent men in Gothenburg also bought shares to support the company Hemtrefnad. A lot of women had started to work and had difficulties to afford an apartment. The building contained more than 50 apartments, most of them a room with a small kitchen. On the top floor there was a restaurant and a lounge, in the basement laundry and bath. The apartments were sought after and there was constantly a queue. Many of the tenants were female teachers and there were special rooms to give private lessons. The building was designed in national romantic style by the architects Hans Hedlund and his son Björner Hedlund.
In 1972 the times had changed and the building was rebuilt to student housing.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemtrevnad_(byggnad) (website in Swedish)