Architecture of Norway Norway, boasting a palladian layout, a central cupola, and a classical colonnade. Collett designed several other manors and town houses. The same period saw the erection of a large number of splendid neo-classisist houses in and around all towns along the coast, notably in Halden, Oslo, Drammen, Arendal, Bergen and Trondheim, mainly wooden buildings dressed up as stone architecture. By far the largest private house in Norway is the Jarlsberg manor, renovated 1812-1814 by the Danish architect Løser for count Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg. Christiania, promoted to the status of a capital city in 1814, had practically no buildings suitable for the
Military history of Norway But by late summer the fleet Vice Admiral Sehested's fleet had not appeared offshore, having been ordered by Frederick IV to return to Baltic waters. Without naval support, the Norwegian Army was forced to return to Norway. Norway was a founding member of NATO in 1949. Norway made a bilateral agreement with the United States to host U.S. nuclear weapons to be delivered by Norwegian military forces, in what was to become the NATO nuclear sharing concept, but ultimately did not partake in the scheme. Military history of Norway The military history of Norway commences before the Viking age with