This abandoned house is located at the tip of an island in northern Norway, close to the ice-cold Norwegian Sea and with tall mountains surrounding it. During the summer, the midnight sun makes the night as bright as the day. In the winter, the polar night makes everything equally dark and gloomy. This is the land of the aurora borealis, and people used to believe it was dangerous to wave at the northern lights because it could come and take you away.
In these harsh surroundings, a house was built here by a man called Sedrup and in 1908, the big build was finished. The house was complete with 3 floors and 28 rooms and had its own servants’ quarters above the kitchen.
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The now-abandoned house was built with an impressive front facing the ocean. When the house was built, the fishing village was only accessible by sea
Among the maids that Sedrup hired to help around the house was a girl named Petra. She arrived in the early 1920s and soon after, fell in love with one of Sedrup’s sons, Leidulf. Eventually, Petra and Leidulf married and started their own family of five children. Life in the tiny fishing village was difficult, but the family was very social and caring—and they always had a spare room for when the doctor, the dentist, or the priest visited the village. The patients usually had to wait on a bench in the hallway, but on cold winter days, Petra always ushered them into one of the stove-heated bedrooms.
The main entrance is on the side of the house
The back of the house, with the servants’ entrance and servants’ quarters
Details from the main entrance
In the 1980s, Leidulf passed away and Petra was alone in the house, but she was never lonely as she often had visitors over for coffee and cake.
In the mid-1990s, Petra passed away and the house fell silent for the first time. A house that to this day still carries her legacy—it is still known in the local community as “Petra’s house.”
From the dining room, abandoned for 27 years
Details from the dining room
Portrait of Petra and Leidulf hanging above the piano
The drawing room with custom-made furniture
This sofa was made by a local master carpenter
One stove in every room of the house. This room was only used for special occasions and the stove was rarely lit
The upstairs bedroom where the doctor used to see his patients when he visited the village
Details from the doctor’s room
The main bedroom
A loom was found in a room on the top floor
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