Jakob Parelius Holmgren (1884–1962) was a Norwegian

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

and a professor of architecture at the

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology ( Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was ...

from 1935 to 1955. He designed, among other things, the redevelopment of the interior of Trondhjems Sparebank from 1921 to 1924, which later won the Houen Foundation's prize in 1927. Holmgren was educated at

in 1903. He was hired soon after by Lars Solberg in Trondheim as an assistant architect. From 1904-1907, he worked on many buildings in

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to help rebuild after the great city fire there. He started his own architecture practice in Trondheim starting in 1907. He designed a number of tenements in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and is ...

that were built in the style of

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. He designed the

Brattvær Church Brattvær Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located just south of the larger village of Råket on the western coast of the island of Smøla. It is the church ...

on the island of Smøla and was part of the historic restoration of the Stiklestad Church from 1928-1930.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Holmgren, Jakob Parelius 1884 births 1962 deaths Architects from Trondheim Academic staff of the Norwegian Institute of Technology