30-31 Dronningens Gade, Saint Thomas, VI 00802

Located in the Opportunity Zone. Haagensen House was built by Mr. John Wright, Lieutenant of the St. Thomas Fire Brigade, originally a one and a half story house in 1822. Hans Haagensen came from Copenhagen to run the Bank of St. Thomas and acquired the property in 1837. He married Sarah Julia Magens who lived next door at the property that was to be a part of an archaeological dig and they raised nine children in the house. The house was built in the Grand Charlotte Amalie town residence style considered Greek revival because of the pediments above the doors and windows. Haagensen House has five period exhibit rooms that display West Indian antiques of the era giving a sense of how the merchant class lived in the 1800s. There is also a separate kitchen behind the house a common building.