Levar Hotell

Year

1827

Style

Neoclassical

Type

hotel

Levar Hotell was built in log in 1827 for Jonas Arctaedius, parish clerk and mill owner, as a coaching inn on the old coast road between Nordmaling and Umeå. The innkeeping duty along that road required transport, food and lodging at…

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1850-1859
Addition
The main building was extended and heightened, and given a broader and taller central section. The rebuilding is attributed, with some uncertainty, to the son of the man who had the inn built: Erik Olof Arctaedius, a schoolteacher…
1890-1899
Renovation
A further renovation of the inn was carried out under Per Nordin, who then owned and ran the house. It followed the enlargement of the main building around mid-century and was the second campaign of work on the property during the…
1902
Lusthuset
A garden pavilion, the lusthus, was raised on the plot. Of the many farm buildings and outbuildings that once served the coaching inn and its land, it is the only one still standing, and the only trace left of the working yard around the…
1930-1949
Facade
The building was altered substantially inside and out. Among the changes were the glazed veranda and the balcony on the upper floor, additions that stayed on the house until the exterior was taken back to its 1850s appearance later in the…
1991
Facade
The exterior was restored to the appearance the building had in the 1850s, with older photographs as the starting point for deciding what to put back and what to take away. The work reversed the outward changes made to the inn in the first…