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1880 establishments in SwedenConvention centres in SwedenEducational institutions disestablished in 1982Educational institutions established in 1880Gymnasiums (school) in Sweden
Listed buildings in StockholmNeoclassical architecture in Sweden
Norra Latin, Drottninggatan
Norra Latin, Drottninggatan

Norra Latin is the familiar Swedish name of a historic Stockholm school more properly known as Högre allmänna läroverket för gossar å Norrmalm ("public senior secondary school for boys at Norrmalm"). Completed in 1880, for over a hundred years the school, at 71b Drottninggatan in the Norrmalm district of Stockholm, offered an education that emphasized Greek, Latin and classical studies. The school was formed by a merger that included Klara gamla skola on Klara västra kyrkogata and Stockholms gymnasium on the island of Riddarholmen. Although a 1918 resolution declared that the school should be co-educational, girls were in fact not admitted until 1961. In the beginning of the 1980s the building was sold to Landsorganisationen i Sverige, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, who renovated the building as a modern conference centre, opening in 1989.

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Norra Latin
Olof Palmes Gata, Stockholm Norrmalm (Norrmalms stadsdelsområde)

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Olof Palmes Gata
111 36 Stockholm, Norrmalm (Norrmalms stadsdelsområde)
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