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from 1779. When those premises became too small, in about 1900, it was decided to build a new headquarters next to the new
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and now houses Villa Copenhagen, new luxury hotel planned to open April 2020.
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The Danish Mail Services traces its history back to 1624 and it was based in
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which was completed in 1905. Chief architect of the
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Index


Baroque Revival
Vesterbro
Copenhagen
Denmark
DKK
Danish Post and Telegraph Company
Heinrich Wenck
Danish
Central Station
Vesterbro
Copenhagen
Denmark
Danish Post and Telegraph Company
Neo-Baroque
Heinrich Wenck

Janus Laurentius Ridter
Mail Building
Købmagergade
Central Railway Station
City Hall
Danish State Railways
Heinrich Wenck
Neo-Baroque style
Historicism
Danish architecture
Architecture of Denmark
"Palatial Mansions in Copenhagen"
the original

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