Villa Elise

English translation

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Description

Introduction

At Sint Michaelstraat 4, situated in the middle of a large plot, stands the VILLA "Elise" with several GATE PIERS on the street side serving as a boundary to the front yard. The villa was built in 1905-1906 commissioned by Petrus Kreykamp according to a design by architect P. Rassaerts in a Transitional architectural style with influences from Art Nouveau, Neo-Renaissance and traditional building. The villa is named after Elise Kreykamp, the only one of the three daughters of Alphons Kreykamp who survived her childhood. In the year of completion she came of age. A stuccoed plaque on the rear facade mentions the name "Elise", a plaque on the right facade the year "1906", a belvedere is crowned with a weathervane bearing the year "1906". The villa is now divided into three residential units and partly modernised. In 1979-1980 a wing with connecting passage and entrance was added on the northeast side.

Description

From St. Michaelstraat, two pairs of brick GATE PIERS laid in red facing brick and decorated with cemented bands (spile fence from 1999) provide access to the site, consisting among other things of a relatively open ornamental garden with lawn and some monumental specimen trees on the north side and a collar of pebbles directly around the villa, reconstructed according to the original. The compactly built VILLA has an asymmetrical layout, covers an irregular floor plan and consists of four storeys plus an attic storey beneath a complex roof, consisting of several slightly sunken gabled roofs and a flat roof used as a terrace. On the northwestern corner a belvedere on a square ground plan of four tiers with a pointed roof furnished with slightly bent roof eaves and a stylised wrought-iron crown. The original slate shingles in Maas covering have now been largely replaced by block and scale-shaped shingles. On the roof slopes two decorative brick chimneys laid high and broad with terra cotta pipes. Profiled gutters with wooden blocks. The flat roof is bordered with a brick, partly cemented balustrade with hard stone coping. The facades of the building erected in red facing brick in English bond are articulated and enlivened among other things by the use of cemented vertical chain courses on the corners, likewise climbing courses in gable ends, likewise stretcher courses in particular on the bel-étage, an encircling rusticated plinth with red pointing in the basement and partly profiled hard stone cordon lines, sills and coping stones. In the facades a rich variety of windows, mostly with brick or stuccoed rope mouldings arched around the head in which decorative keystones with floral motifs. Among others various oculi with wooden two-light windows, (paired) fixed windows with round-arched fanlights furnished with small glazing bars, composite or T-shaped windows with profiled mouldings and segmental arch fanlights furnished with stained glass or curved glazing bars with white and green cathedral glass. Front facade with right-hand corner risalit, ending in a spout gable with shoulders. Two-storey semicircular bay window on which a balcony with Art Nouveau wrought-iron railings between cemented brick piers. Stained glass fanlights. On the left corner the semi-detached belvedere, from the third tier narrowed to an octagonal tower with narrow stained-glass windows and a decorative ornamental course. Fourth tier with covered terrace adorned with cemented stretcher courses and brick, partly cemented balustrade with hard stone coping. Between this staircase tower and the right-hand volume a curved hard stone flight of stairs leads to a barrel-vaulted entrance vestibule crowned with a keystone and with a secondary, double door. On one side a slightly curved, wrought-iron balustrade in Art Nouveau style. Above the entrance a balcony, furnished with a balustrade as mentioned above at the belvedere and on the left side resting on an extended buttress in which a large portrait head of Elise. Left facade with left-hand corner risalit, ending in a spout gable with shoulders, partly with iron cramps, and a rounded top crown on which floral ornamental ironwork. Between risalit and belvedere is the service entrance. At the service entrance and two above rows of closed, climbing slot windows (lavatories) are steel profile beams, furnished with decorative rosettes, used as lintels. Right part of the right facade ending in a spout gable as mentioned, crowned with a brick chimney of which the channel partly laid out in the facade wall is ornamented with cemented moulding and ornamental stuccowork. Two-storey extension on square ground plan of which the corners are narrowed to effect the transition to the five-sided brick balustrade (detailing as mentioned) of the balcony above. In this extension situated on the south side was located Kreykamp's office, from which he could keep a good eye on his tobacco factory then situated on the side yard. In the corner on the front a three-sided, two-storey extension with a decoratively worked wooden entrance door and an adjoining straight flight of stairs, with hard stone steps and cemented, slightly curling consoles on which a decorative Art Nouveau wrought-iron balustrade. In the corner at the rear a quarter-round two-storey extension that adjoins the conservatory located on the rear facade. The brick balustrade of the balcony is continued in the corner extensions. In the left part of the facade an exuberantly decorated stuccowork plaque with "ANNO 1906". Otherwise in the facade a blind window. The rear facade consists of a projecting, blind right part in which an equally exuberantly decorated stuccowork plaque with "ELISE", and a receding gable end in the left part with detailing for the most part as mentioned. Two-storey conservatory extension beneath a flat with stained glass fanlights and an adjoining slanted flight of stairs with kinked steps and cemented balustrade. In the interior the original layout has been largely preserved. In the basement the partly rearranged and modernised former service rooms and storage spaces. Service entrance in the left facade. On the bel-étage centrally a vestibule, staircases on the left side and adjoining corridor now leading to the new building situated at the rear. On the left side the privies and a former 'room for the gentleman', on the right side room-en-suite with bay window and conservatory, from which the former small office (now kitchen) on the right facade is accessible. Upper floors divided accordingly. Of the interior are among others of significance: polychrome cement tile floors in the basement, original spiral staircase with decoratively carved newel and various coloured stained-glass windows depicting tobacco plants in the stairwell, marble floor tiles in the corridor, exuberant stucco ceilings, sliding doors and panel doors furnished with diamond panels and profiled door mouldings. Evaluation

The VILLA "Elise" with GATE PIERS is of general importance. The object has cultural historical values as a special expression of socio-economic developments at the beginning of the twentieth century in the Limburgian tobacco and cigar industry, which came into great flourish especially in Tegelen. In addition, the object is of significance for the typological development of manufacturers' dwellings, in particular due to its lofty yet compact main structure with monumental belvedere. The object has architectural historical values due to the significance of the architectural style for the history of architecture, the aesthetic quality of the highly varied architectural design, the high-quality ornamental work in exterior and interior, the exceptional detailing and the great variety in use of materials, window compositions and facade treatment. The object has ensemble values due to the historical-spatial relation with the double villa located on the opposite side of the street, as part of the historic building of the Steyl core and due to the very distinctive positioning on the corner of St. Michaelstraat and Veerweg whereby the object is of particular significance for the character of the neighbourhood. The object is of significance due to the architectural and typological rarity and the intactness of the exterior in combination with various preserved elements from the interior. It reinforces the visual and structural intactness of the part of Steyl to be protected as a historic townscape at national level.