Style and architecture - Wessels plass

Wessels plass is a treat. Its buildings span many different architectural periods.

Photo: Tove Solbakken / Byantikvaren

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Wessels plass is where four of Kvadraturen’s main streets meet — Stortingsgata, Akersgata, Prinsens gate and Nedre Vollgate — and you are now surrounded by the city’s history, no matter which way you look.

Photo: Unknown / Byantikvaren

"Skreddergården" - "Tailorbuilding" (1894), Akersgata 20. One of the capital´s first commercial buildings.

Photo: Unknown / Byantikvaren

Exclusive paintings on facade from 1895.

Stortinget - Parliament of Norway

Photo: Tove Solbakken /Byantikvaren

Stortinget (1866), by Swedish architect Emil Victor Langlet. Front seen from" Eidsvolls plass".

Photo: Tove Solbakken / Byantikvaren

Stortinget as seen from Wessels plass.

Frimurerlosjen - Freemason-building

Photo: Tove Solbakken / Byantikvaren

Freemason-building (1894), Nedre Vollgate 19.

Photo: Anders beer Wilse / Oslo Museum

Exclusive interior from freemason-building in 1933. Extensive use of Norwegian marble.