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vault: "A very large apartment building, belonging to Messrs. Barkman and Bergh, stretching along Adelgatan to Kansli- and Kyrkogranden, has a cellar vault that was probably built shortly after the city's foun- dation in 1319. This cellar vault consists of a long rectangle, along which four large square pillars are placed at a distance of about 20 feet from each other and from the side walls. The pillars and the surroun- ding walls are connected with fine decorative and cross ribs, which surround relatively flat domes; the entire ceiling consists of ten sub- stantial ribbed vaults. Above the eastern part of this cellar vault, which undoubtedly had two or three floors, a different house has since been erected" - in 1519 by Jacob Michelsen - "which with its one gable wall extends 8 feet in front of the aforementioned foundation on Adelgatan and with the other about 30 feet on the courtyard."
During the construction of this newer house, a rough stone wall has been erected under two of the cross vaults of the old basement for the construction of the southern side. On the west side, along the long
side, the part that overlooks Adelgatan is marked by a dividing wall on one side. According to the building committee's plan dated March 18, 1896, the plan for the expansion of the oil storage room (on the for- mer property plot number 346) in the basement of the Tunnel inclu- des a cross vault and a tunnel vault, and in the area that extends to the garden, there is also one of each, resulting in three cross vaults and the same number of tunnel vaults. All of the cross vaults have unusually high domes without any dividing or cross arches. This four-story stone
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