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was laid out, its axis parallel to the main building. Scheel's log house was probably intended for a farm manager, and his plan may have been to build a more monumental residence as the focal point of the garden, symmetrical to its axis, and with a splendid view to the
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The private garden surrounding the manor house was historically much smaller. After Oslo municipality acquired the estate, much of the remaining agricultural land was turned into a
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Bernt Anker died a childless widower in 1805. Frogner was bought by his nephew Morten Anker in 1807. His business was hard hit by the economic depression during and after the
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inhabited his family's town house during winter, and used
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in 1864, and his heirs sold it to the municipality in 1889, thus making it the first forest owned by Oslo municipality.
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Frogner hovedgård – Bondegård, herskapsgård, byens gård.
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