Werk-woonhuis, Oosterstraat 59 A

English translation

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Description

Introduction HAT SHOP, situated in the closed, western facade wall of the Oosterstraat, the result of an alteration from 1909 commissioned by T. de Vries of an older property from circa 1880 according to the design of Groningen architect A.Th. van Elmpt in a Renewal style characteristic of the architecture from the beginning of the twentieth century. The shop front is original and largely intact. From the older building there remains a stuccoed ceiling with rosette in the passage and the space on the (neglected) storey of the rear wing with wooden staircase, wooden beam ceiling and black marble fireplace. The building is currently still in use as a shop and residential space on the storey. Description The building is erected on a deep, rectangular plan and comprises three storeys under a flat roof. The front facade is three window bays wide and is entirely stuccoed and provided with false joints, a string course and geometric decorations. The central bay is slightly projected and provided on either side with pilasters. The corners of the facade are adorned by a pair of spherical pilasters. The storey windows are flush-topped and contain four-part fanlights, which are provided with coloured leaded glass. The ground floor is occupied over the full width by a wooden shop front, which has an asymmetrical arrangement. The front is placed on a hard stone plinth and contains two deep porches. The tall shop-windows are flanked at the corners by worked hard stone pilasters, which are provided with geometric decorations with characteristics of the Art Nouveau style. The entrance porch to the upper dwelling contains the original front door with fanlight with an oval glazing bar pattern and is provided with tiled wainscoting with blue tiles manufactured in Germany. The front is terminated square by a steel architrave. The glazed shop door contains a curved fanlight with refined glazing bars, filled with cut glass. The shop door is decorated with copper fittings in geometric forms in Sezession style. The rear facade of the rear wing is entirely plastered and contains on the left a panel door with fanlight with a fan-shaped glazing bar pattern and two flush-topped T-windows and on the storey six-pane windows. Internally, the structure, layout and finish have been partly preserved. Of note, among others, the partly still original fittings of the shop space with wooden display panels with curved forms and filled with coloured leaded glass, the partition wall with sliding doors and side and fanlights with etched glass, the flush-topped windows at the rear of the shop with coloured leaded glass and the side door to the white marble passage with circular glazing bar pattern and coloured leaded glass, the stucco ceiling with Art Nouveau decorations in the back room and wooden panel doors. Evaluation HAT SHOP, altered in a Renewal architecture style characteristic of the beginning of the twentieth century according to the design of Groningen architect A.Th. van Elmpt, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value and because of the remarkable integrity of the shop front and parts of the original shop fittings. Furthermore, the building constitutes an architecturally important element in a sequence of valuable properties in the western facade wall of the Oosterstraat in Groningen.