The five residences on the street Øvregate were referred to as "sleeping barracks for the young blokes", with 48 men in each house. However in local conversation they were called the "barracks for the loose blokes". On each storey there were six bedrooms accommodating 4 men, a laundry room, a hanging room for drying clothes and four water closets. They were designed by the architect Carl Thune-Larsen in 1916, when he was employed at Glomfjords Aktieselskab. They had half-timbered frames, slate covered hipped roofs, vertical panelling and Empire style cross post windows. The "young bloke houses" were later converted into family residences.