Government House;Prime Minister's Office
Also known as Stjórnarráðshúsið
1770
Vernacular
government
The oldest building in central Reykjavík and one of the oldest surviving structures in Iceland, originally constructed as a penitentiary between 1761 and 1770 at the instigation of Skúli Magnússon, who argued that Iceland's wandering poor…
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