Johansdal, Historic mansion on Djurgården, Sweden

Johansdal is a timber merchant's villa on Djurgården, north of the Djurgårdsbrunn canal beside the Lilla Sjötull bridge. Its main part is a single-storey block with an attic under a high roof with long projecting eaves, built in the light, airy Swiss-chalet style of the period. On the east side a large two-storey punschveranda dominates, richly decorated with scroll-sawn woodwork known as snickarglädje.

Johan Bäckström built the wooden villa in 1851 and named it after his first name; the area originally belonged to Villa Gröndal south of the canal. Until the 1920s it was mainly a summer residence, used among others by the artist Johan Gustav von Holst, who probably transferred it to a Miss Joulin, owner by 1892. Under Baroness Edle Leuhausen it became a permanent home, and in the 1960s it passed to Elisabeth Peppler, wife of the director of Mo och Domsjö.

The name comes from owner Johan Bäckström's first name, given in 1851. The two-storey veranda on the east side is carved with lövsåg work, known in Swedish as snickarglädje, or carpenter's joy. The painter Johan Gustav von Holst, born 1841, used the villa as a summer place and probably passed it to a Miss Joulin, who owned it by 1892.

Johansdal stands on the north bank of the Djurgårdsbrunnskanalen, right beside the Lilla Sjötullsbron bridge, and the Lilla Sjötullen building from the 1830s lies just below it. The villa is a private residence, so it is seen from the surrounding paths and bridge rather than entered. The old stable and gardener's house stood east of Hunduddsvägen until 1973.

The stables and gardener's house that belonged to Johansdal stood on the east side of Hunduddsvägen until the 1970s; in 1973 they were replaced by a dwelling designed and built by architect Erik Sörling. Below the villa stands Lilla Sjötullen, erected in the 1830s as a complement to Stora Sjötullen at Blockhusudden.