 The park is surrounded by four streets, and housing three and four storeys tall, mostly built in the 1870s and 1880s.Grünerløkka School adjacent to the park was taken into use in 1895, and on the opposite side of the park is found Paulus Church from 1892.In 2006 the park, school, church and fifteen blocks in the surrounding urban area was put under strict regulations, prohibiting any visible changes to the city environment.