Grönstedska palatset, Former wine and spirits warehouse in Vasastan, Stockholm, Sweden
Grönstedtska palatset is a brick building on the triangular block Städet 9 between Dalagatan, Norra stationsgatan and Sankt Eriksgatan in Vasastan, Stockholm. Architect Cyrillus Johansson drew it in 1923 for Vin- & Spritcentralen, with Chinese-inspired features such as the curved roof slope and two stone lions guarding the Sankt Eriksgatan entrance. It now holds a hotel and offices.
Vin- & Spritcentralen, formed in 1917 to bring Sweden's wine and spirits trade under state control, took over private firms including Grönstedt's, whose name the building kept. Architect Cyrillus Johansson drew the 1923 brick building on the triangular Städet plot beside Stockholm's northern railway station. Wine arrived in railway tank wagons, and a lift large enough for a whole wagon carried them to the first floor for bottling. The central moved to Årstadal in 1967.
The name comes from Grönstedts, one of the wine firms the state-run Vin- & Spritcentralen took over in 1917, which is why the house is also called Vinlagret. Cyrillus Johansson drew it in 1923 with Chinese-inspired details: the curved roof pitch and two stone lions guarding the Sankt Eriksgatan gate. From 1967 to 2011 the Vin och sprithistoriska museet occupied the building.
The building occupies the whole triangular block Städet 9, bounded by Dalagatan, Norra stationsgatan and Sankt Eriksgatan in Vasastan, not on the Solna border. The main entrance with the two stone lions faces Sankt Eriksgatan. Today the premises hold a hotel and offices, so the interior is not open as a museum.
The building occupies the whole triangular block Städet 9, whose shape came from Per Olof Hallman's reworking of the 1878 plan for northwestern Norrmalm. The block name Städet (the anvil) belongs to a group of about 25 names taken from the nearby Rörstrand porcelain factory, alongside Blästern, Degeln and Ugnen.
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