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Ledaal House, Stavanger serves as the royal summer residence which was built in the year 1800. This house of the Kielland family lies to the west of Stavanger in Norway. Here in the Ledaal House, Stavanger tourists can see the novels by Alexander Kielland under the name of Sandsgård that are displayed here. This royal mansion is the venue for receptions and other functions today.

The Ledaal House, Stavanger was renovated in 1863 by Jacob Kielland. After him, his son, Jonas and family lived in the Leedal house in Stavanger. Six years after the death of Jonas the building was purchased by the Stavanger municipality and has remained under their jurisdiction ever since. After 1949 the Ledaal House, Stavanger was converted into a museum and the royal family began to spend their summers in this gorgeous place.

It is believed that the house is called 'Leedal' after the first owner and his wife - Gabriel Schancke Kielland and Johanna Margaretha Bull. Alexander Kielland was the great-grandson of Gabriel and this famous Norwegian writer frequented the Ledaal House, Stavanger. Many of the details in his works have been inspired by the house and the people who lived there.

For sixty years after the building of this house, it continued as the favorite holiday resort for the Kiedall family. The Leedal House in Stavanger was the first house that was built with bricks that had to be transported from Netherlands. The architecture of the house is unique it is a rectangular two-storied building, with a half-hip roof. The central façade of the house follows predominantly the Baroque and Rococo styles and in some ways is also influenced by the Danish architecture of the 18th century.

Compared to the spacious 2nd floor the 1st floor is rather small with shuttered and stingy windows. In the second floor there is a piano. Here the reception rooms are situated. In the original Leedal House Stavanger was washed in white plaster in the Classicist style. The window frames were light and made out of light-colored sandstones that were imported from Bornholm, Denmark. Later the building was painted in the Late Empire red, with white-painted cornices and window-frames and dark-green shutters. Today this is one of the important Stavanger tourist attractions. Tourists love to explore the house that is now a royal mansion too.

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