 It had been founded by Gustav Aron Henriques (1859-1939) and C. Zøylner (1875-1937) on 1 September 1900, but it is also not known when that company moved to Nyhavn 63.From 1950 to 1988, The Maritime Library (Søfartens Bibliotek) was based in the building.It had been founded by the shipping company J. Lauritzen in 1939.