Bogstad is a former estate and now neighborhood in the borough of Vestre Aker

Vestre Aker

Vestre Aker is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.The previous municipality Aker was merged into the city of Oslo in 1948.The borough of Vestre Aker was organized as part of the 1 January 2004 reform. Previous boroughs...

 in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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It has its origin in a farm by the same name, near the lake Bogstadvannet

Bogstadvannet

Bogstadvannet is a lake between the city of Oslo and the municipality of Bærum, Akershus, Norway. It is part of Sørkedalsvassdraget, which in turn is part of Oslomarkvassdraget....

. The farm was owned by several notable people. It went from Peder Nielsen Leuch and his family to Peder Anker

Peder Anker

Peder Anker was a Norwegian businessman and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1814 until 1822.-Biography:...

 of the Anker family via marriage; then to Johan Caspar Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg

Johan Caspar Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg

Johan Caspar Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg was a politician and a Norwegian count, one of only two titled noblemen in Norway...

 of the Wedel-Jarlsberg family via marriage. The farm was developed with a larger Manor house

Manor house

A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...

, from 1785 with an English garden

English garden

The English garden, also called English landscape park , is a style of Landscape garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical Garden à la française of the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe. The...

-style park. The last private owners were Nini Wedel-Jarlsberg (1880–1945) and Westye Parr Egeberg

Westye Parr Egeberg

Westye Parr Egeberg was a Norwegian military officer, businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Kristiania as a son of Ferdinand Julian Egeberg...

 (1877–1959). The property Bogstad has been owned by Oslo municipality since 1954, and the manor itself was given to the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.