Huize De Windroos

English translation

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Description

Introduction

On the bend of the Okeghemstraat, between Cornelis Krusemanstraat and Lomanstraat, a block of apartment dwellings erected in Amsterdam School style - named 'Huize de Windroos', but popularly known as 'Het Zwarte Huis' - designed by P. Kramer in 1921 commissioned by building contractor J.Th. Boersma. N.B. In 1922 the front facade was altered by P. Kramer and acquired its present appearance. In 1934 the window frames were lowered. In 1937 internal alterations took place.

The windows in the living room frames detailed in Amsterdam School style and still present in the blueprint were later all replaced by simple three-pane windows. The hoisting beam is not original.

Description

On a composite ground plan, which follows the 'bend' in the Okeghemstraat, a dark-coloured brick apartment building consisting of five storeys under a flat roof with a red brick roof edge, originally intended for four families whereby the bedrooms on the top floor belonged to the two upper dwellings. The wall surface of the front facade at the height of the entrance and right bay (the latter projecting forward) is shaped very plastically with a characteristic of the Amsterdam School 'rolled' corner closure running into a round, tower-like crowning projecting above the roof covered with red tiles. The concave transition to the recessed entrance bay finds a contrast in the convex-shaped brick balcony which is supported by a hard stone plastically shaped and inwardly turning pillar. The recessed wooden door section on a hard stone step on the ground floor consists of two doors richly detailed in Amsterdam School style and set at an angle to each other, painted brown, beneath a matted glass porch light set in timber, whereby the left door provides access to the bel-étage and the right to the ground floor dwelling. The entrance to the two upper dwellings, likewise with two doors set at an angle to each other but now painted black, with Amsterdam School detailing, is located at the height of the bel-étage and is reached via a hard stone cross-step consisting of 17 steps with iron handrails on both sides and a masonry parapet on the street side. In front of the parapet a hard stone column with 'HUIZE DE WINDROOS' carved in capitals. The wooden window frames with various glazing bar arrangements and details have unequal forms and are different in height and width but are all placed symmetrically in the facade. The front facade is further enlivened by the application of decorative brickwork. The rear facade is very regular in arrangement and has, except on the ground floor, a balcony on each storey with coupled cross windows and a balcony door. The windows, different in size, are distributed symmetrically across the rear facade. On the ground floor a door to the garden.

Valuation

Block of apartment dwellings of architectural-historical importance as a fine example of well-designed and detailed apartment building in the Amsterdam School style from shortly after the short, highly expressive early period, compellingly responding to the location. Also of importance in the oeuvre of P. Kramer.