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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i.jpg/250px-H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i.jpg/375px-H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i.jpg/500px-H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="text-align: center">Exterior façade in 2007</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="text-align: center"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 250px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="250" data-height="200" data-zoom="13" data-overlays="["_d387a1a554de5aed573f8f8693c7c3ac8c58d21e"]"><img 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title="Reykjavík">Reykjavík</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">Iceland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i&params=64_08_47_N_21_54_24_W_type:landmark_scale:1000_region:IS"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">64°08′47″N</span> <span class="longitude">21°54′24″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">64.14639°N 21.90667°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">64.14639; -21.90667</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Opened</th><td class="infobox-data">1909</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data">City of Reykjavík</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Höfði</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Icelandic pronunciation:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="is-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Icelandic" title="Help:IPA/Icelandic">[ˈhœvðɪ]</a></span>) is a house in <a href="/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk" title="Reykjavík">Reykjavík</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a>, built in 1909, and best known as the location for the 1986 <a href="/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk_Summit" title="Reykjavík Summit">Reykjavík Summit</a> meeting of President <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> of the United States and <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">General Secretary</a> <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> of the Soviet Union. This meeting was an important step towards ending of the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>. Within the building, the flags of the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States" title="Flag of the United States">United States</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Flag of the Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> are cross-hung to commemorate the meeting. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The house was built in 1909 and is located at Félagstún. It was initially built for the French <a href="/wiki/Consul_(representative)" title="Consul (representative)">consul</a> in Iceland, Jean-Paul Brillouin, and was the exclusive residence of poet and businessman <a href="/wiki/Einar_Benediktsson" title="Einar Benediktsson">Einar Benediktsson</a> (1864–1940) for twelve years (1913–1925).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1925 to 1937 painter <a href="/wiki/Louisa_Matth%C3%ADasd%C3%B3ttir" title="Louisa Matthíasdóttir">Louisa Matthíasdóttir</a> grew up in the house since her family resided there.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1940s and 1950s, it was home to the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_Kingdom,_Reykjav%C3%ADk" title="Embassy of the United Kingdom, Reykjavík">British Embassy in Reykjavík</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Internet_Archive_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Internet_Archive-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city of Reykjavík purchased the house in 1958, and restored it. From then on it has been used for formal receptions and festive occasions. </p><p>On 25 September 2009, on the building's 100th birthday, Höfði was damaged in a fire.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All irreplaceable artifacts were saved. </p><p>In 2015, Einar Benediktsson's statue, by <a href="/wiki/%C3%81smundur_Sveinsson" title="Ásmundur Sveinsson">Ásmundur Sveinsson</a>, was moved to a spot near Höfði house. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Construction">Construction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Construction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The house, which shows the influence of <i><a href="/wiki/Jugendstil" title="Jugendstil">Jugendstil</a></i>, was <a href="/wiki/Prefab" class="mw-redirect" title="Prefab">prefabricated</a> in Norway, shipped to Iceland and erected in 1909 for the French consul, before permission for the house had been granted by the city planning department.<sup id="cite_ref-Evans_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Evans-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time of construction it was the largest private estate in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-Evans_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Evans-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Telecommunications_history">Telecommunications history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Telecommunications history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before the house was built, the site was used to make the first radio communications between Iceland and the outside world on 26 June 1905, when contact was made with <a href="/wiki/Poldhu" title="Poldhu">Poldhu</a> in Cornwall, UK, with a <a href="/wiki/Marconi_antenna" class="mw-redirect" title="Marconi antenna">Marconi antenna</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The effort was instigated by poet <a href="/wiki/Einar_Benediktsson" title="Einar Benediktsson">Einar Benediktsson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The antenna was in use until October 1906.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Local_legend">Local legend</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Local legend"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The memoirs of one of the earliest occupants of Höfði state that the house is inhabited by the spirit of a young woman. Accounts vary on who she is but most commonly she is either a suicide or drowning victim.<sup id="cite_ref-news1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John Greenway, who inhabited the house in 1952, insisted that it be sold and the British consulate moved elsewhere, because of what he called "bumps in the night".<sup id="cite_ref-news2_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He even applied for special permission from the Foreign Office to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-news3_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That same year the house was sold back to the Icelandic government.<sup id="cite_ref-news2_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Popular local legends differ from the accounts of the house's inhabitants; the most popular of which is that the house is a Viking burial site.<sup id="cite_ref-news3_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For this reason locals say the liquor cabinet of the house is frequently raided by spirits.<sup id="cite_ref-news3_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The legend has even gained recognition by the Foreign Ministry, who have officially stated that "We do not confirm or deny that the Höfði has a ghost."<sup id="cite_ref-news1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H%C3%B6f%C3%B0i&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Reagan_Gorbachev_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev at Höfði"><img alt="Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev at Höfði" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Reagan_Gorbachev_Island.jpg/86px-Reagan_Gorbachev_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Reagan_Gorbachev_Island.jpg/128px-Reagan_Gorbachev_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Reagan_Gorbachev_Island.jpg/171px-Reagan_Gorbachev_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="536" data-file-height="750" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> at Höfði</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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