 He was an active member of the artist community in the town, and had already designed a number of prominent buildings there, including the railway station and the church.At the same time he was very active in Copenhagen where, as a result of his spacious, light-filled rooms and clean, aesthetic facades, he had become one of the main proponents of the reaction against the excess of the Historicist style which had dominated Danish architecture for some time.Construction started in 1913 and the house was inaugurated in the spring of 1914.