Humleby is an enclave of terraced house

Terraced house

In architecture and city planning, a terrace house, terrace, row house, linked house or townhouse is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Great Britain in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls...

s situated next to the Carlsberg area

Carlsberg (district)

Carlsberg is an area straddling the border of Valby and Vesterbro districts in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It covers an area of 33 hectares and is the former industrial site of the Carlsberg Breweries, which decommissioned their Valby brewery at the end of 2008, concentrating their production of...

 in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. They were built between 1885 to 1891 by the Worker's Building Society

Arbejdernes Byggeforening

Arbejdernes Byggeforening was a Danish building society founded in Copenhagen in 1865 to provide healthy homes for the city's workers, especially those from the Burmeister & Wain factory...

 to provide healthy housing for the workers at Burmeister & Wain

Burmeister & Wain

Burmeister & Wain was a large established Danish shipyard and leading diesel engine producer headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded by two Danes and an Englishman, its earliest roots stretch back to 1846. Over its 150-year history, it grew successfully into a strong company through the end...

.

The area consists of 235 three storey houses. They were designed by Frederik Bøttger, the architect of the Building Society from, with inspiration from English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 working-class housing.

Streets

• Vesterfælledvej
• Ny Carlsberg Vej* Freundsgade - opkaldt efter billedhuggeren Hermann Ernst Freund (1786-1840)
• Jerichausgade - named after the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau
  Jens Adolf Jerichau
  Emil Jens Baumann Adolf Jerichau was a Danish sculptor. He belonged to the generation immediately after Bertel Thorvaldsen, for whom he worked briefly in Tome, but gradually moved away from the static Neoclassicism he inherited from him and towards a more dynamic and realistic style.He was a...
  
   (1816-1883)
• Bissensgade - named after Herman Wilhelm Bissen
  Herman Wilhelm Bissen
  Herman Wilhelm Bissen was a Danish sculptor.Bissen first studied painting in Copenhagen, then became a pupil of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. In 1824, he travelled to Rome and met Christian Daniel Rauch in Berlin. Under the influence of Thorvaldsen, his style changed from romanticism to...
  
   (1798-1868)
• Ernst Meyers Gade - named after the painter Ernst Meyer (1797-1861)
• Lundbyesgade - named after the painter Johan Thomas Lundbye (1818-1848)
• Küchlersgade - opkaldt efter the Albert Küchler
  Albert Küchler
  Albert Küchler was a Danish painter associated with the Danish Golden Age. He mainly painted genre works and portraits. He was highly esteemed by his contemporaries but is little known today.-Early life and education:...
  
   (1803-1886)
• Carstensgade - named after the painter Asmus Jacob Carstens
  Asmus Jacob Carstens
  Asmus Jacob Carstens was a Danish-German painter.-Biography:He was born in Sanct Jürgen near Schleswig to a miller. He had a youthful passion for painting, but was placed in a mercantile house...
  
  (1754-1798)