Ilapensjonat
Here's Google translate's slightly fractured version of the Norwegian architectural-history page about this building:
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Architecture and History in Oslo:
Ila Guest House, Waldemar Thranes Street 70.
This corner building at Uelands gate was built in 1919 for the municipality of Kristiania [now Oslo], by the architects Morgenstierne & Eide, assisted by engineer Olaf Knoph. The building was completed in 1921 . . .
Ila Guest House was opened on October 18, 1921, and was used as a female house for women. The requirement for the residents was that they should be "self-employed women, both of the working class and of the business situation." Building costs amounted to DKK. 2,500,000.
The guest house is built in a tiled brick and has a two-part composition.
The main facade of Waldemar Thranes gate has four full floors below that high-pitched mansard roof.
The composition is symmetrical, with an elevated center gap and an octogonal roof rack tower with loop tiles as distinctive elements in the center roof. On the first floor there are business and reception rooms with large windows.
The second floor windows are flanked by shutters. The anchor of the facade forms the letters "ILAPENSJONAT," and the gabled tympanone field is adorned by the municipality's arms and the year 1921.
The wing towards Uelands gate is lower, and subordinate to the composition.
The corner is rounded, and the lower floors mark the large roundabouts of the window sacks.
On the right flank, an exterior staircase leads up to a forward entrance. The protrusion, and the end wall around the corner, is dominated by coarse-stone stones.
On the short wall there is also a round outwalk for stairs, reminiscent of a castle tower. The two wings are bound together by the front, rounded building section of the main entrance, with a column-mounted balcony in front. The style expression is Nordic Nybarokk [New Baroque].
Much of the original interior is preserved.
The restaurant was established by the private limited company Kristiania Folkerestauranter, later Oslo Folkerestauranter. In 1957, the trolley customers entered the entrance directly from the street, adjacent to one of the large windows facing the street.
In 1963 a larger outdoor area was established here, with extensive use of flower arrangements, an outdoor environment that became premier.
In 1972, the company was taken over by the company Dampkjøkkenet, which renamed the establishment Alexanderstuen, following its location at Alexander Kielland's place. In 1984, the name Tranen was restored.
The venue has been known for its informal style, as well as its musical events. Among the artists was the gangster Arnie "Skiffle Joe" Norse most famous.
sources:
Per Erling Johnsen: Brown cafes - Oslo's weird venues, Schibsted, 2005
Leif Kåre Solberg: Architecture in Oslo, Knowledge Agency, 1999.
Planning and Building Agency Building Saw Archives
Byantikvaren: Statement of Protective Values, Feb. 7th. 2012
Registration Center for Historical Data (University of Tromsø)
Ilapensjonat
Here's Google translate's slightly fractured version of the Norwegian architectural-history page about this building:
=======================================================
Architecture and History in Oslo:
Ila Guest House, Waldemar Thranes Street 70.
This corner building at Uelands gate was built in 1919 for the municipality of Kristiania [now Oslo], by the architects Morgenstierne & Eide, assisted by engineer Olaf Knoph. The building was completed in 1921 . . .
Ila Guest House was opened on October 18, 1921, and was used as a female house for women. The requirement for the residents was that they should be "self-employed women, both of the working class and of the business situation." Building costs amounted to DKK. 2,500,000.
The guest house is built in a tiled brick and has a two-part composition.
The main facade of Waldemar Thranes gate has four full floors below that high-pitched mansard roof.
The composition is symmetrical, with an elevated center gap and an octogonal roof rack tower with loop tiles as distinctive elements in the center roof. On the first floor there are business and reception rooms with large windows.
The second floor windows are flanked by shutters. The anchor of the facade forms the letters "ILAPENSJONAT," and the gabled tympanone field is adorned by the municipality's arms and the year 1921.
The wing towards Uelands gate is lower, and subordinate to the composition.
The corner is rounded, and the lower floors mark the large roundabouts of the window sacks.
On the right flank, an exterior staircase leads up to a forward entrance. The protrusion, and the end wall around the corner, is dominated by coarse-stone stones.
On the short wall there is also a round outwalk for stairs, reminiscent of a castle tower. The two wings are bound together by the front, rounded building section of the main entrance, with a column-mounted balcony in front. The style expression is Nordic Nybarokk [New Baroque].
Much of the original interior is preserved.
The restaurant was established by the private limited company Kristiania Folkerestauranter, later Oslo Folkerestauranter. In 1957, the trolley customers entered the entrance directly from the street, adjacent to one of the large windows facing the street.
In 1963 a larger outdoor area was established here, with extensive use of flower arrangements, an outdoor environment that became premier.
In 1972, the company was taken over by the company Dampkjøkkenet, which renamed the establishment Alexanderstuen, following its location at Alexander Kielland's place. In 1984, the name Tranen was restored.
The venue has been known for its informal style, as well as its musical events. Among the artists was the gangster Arnie "Skiffle Joe" Norse most famous.
sources:
Per Erling Johnsen: Brown cafes - Oslo's weird venues, Schibsted, 2005
Leif Kåre Solberg: Architecture in Oslo, Knowledge Agency, 1999.
Planning and Building Agency Building Saw Archives
Byantikvaren: Statement of Protective Values, Feb. 7th. 2012
Registration Center for Historical Data (University of Tromsø)