Nesset Vicarage – The main house
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The old main building from 1702 that stood here when the Bjørnson family came to Nesset was in such a bad state that Peder Bjørnson sent a letter to the King with an application to be allowed to build a new one. He applied for a loan of around 1200 spesidaler and after much toing and froing he finally received the money and the building began. The new house was completed in 1846. Although small building works were carried out right until 1896, when parish priest Thorsen undertook some improvements. Since then the house has been modernized many times. On one of the windows on the 1st floor Bjørnstjerne has scratched his name with his mother’s diamond ring. The main house is now restored and houses a museum used to convey the Bjørnson history, the history of the vicarage and Romsdal’s literary history. The main house is in a typical empire style with clean simple lines inspired by antiquity architecture. The Romsdal museum bought the yard at the Nesset Vicarage using Norwegian Church endowment funds in 2019. The fund has in later years sold off many of its vicarages after the residency requirements for priests were repealed in 2015.