Woonhuis, Wilhelminalaan 4

English translation

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Description

Introduction

MANSION in the style of rationalism with ornaments inspired by Oriental examples from 1904-05, built for the married couple Moltzer-Boeke after a design by K.P.C. de Bazel. For the sculptural work on the front facade C.A. Oosschot (brother-in-law of De Bazel) was engaged, the execution was in the hands of the Alkmaar contractor Ringers.

The property is part of the closed facade wall along the Wilhelminalaan up to the property Wilhelminalaan 2 by Jan Wils.

The paving of the covered courtyard at the rear and of the back garden were recently (1999) carried out according to designs found by De Bazel.

Description

Dwelling house of two storeys on an irregular ground plan under a composite hipped roof with cut-outs which are covered with dampened Dutch tiles. On all sides of the house various arched roof dormers are incorporated in the hipped roof, at the rear with a three-light window. The ground plan has a bent rectangular main form whereby the north and south facades are partially set at an angle. The north facade is worked away in the interior behind a straight internal wall with built-in cupboards. The front and rear facades are constructed in brown brick, the front facade is decorated with natural stone elements provided with relief decorations in Oriental style. The windows, partly with sash windows, are predominantly executed with a twelve- or fifteen-pane glazing bars in the fanlights. The front facade is horizontally divided by the broad natural stone decorative bands in the transom and the natural stone drip mouldings of the windows. Below the projecting gutter line on corbels a frieze with decorative brickwork. The asymmetrical front facade has a three-part division: on the right an extended bay section with cut-off corners over two storeys, on the left a facade section with the entrance and in the middle a window bay with on the upper floor a small balcony. The bay section is covered by a five-sided roof with in the middle roof panel a small arched roof dormer. In the middle window bay of the bay coupled windows with cross window and twelve-pane fanlights, and in the sloped sides windows with fifteen-pane fanlights. The corners of the bay are accentuated on the upper floor by pilasters with capitals and bases executed in natural stone. The entrance section consists of an arched heavy varnished door with narrow side lights and a 24-pane fanlight with narrow side lights in a richly decorated natural stone surround with segmented arch. The narrow side lights with stained glass windows and ornamental iron braces are flanked by natural stone pilasters with fantasy bases and capitals. Furthermore, decorations in Oriental style are applied above the windows and door. Above the door a coupled window with two sash windows with twelve-pane fanlights, and in the roof panel of the transverse gable a small arched roof dormer. In the middle window bay on the ground floor a window with cross window and small glazing bars and on the upper floor a glazed double door to the balcony with glazing bars and fanlights with glazing bars. Also a door with glazing bars to the balcony from the left front room. The balustrade of the balcony is executed in sandstone with three round holes in which decorative iron rosettes are incorporated.

The rear facade is closed off by a gutter line on cleats. On the left a conservatory extension with glazed double doors with side and top lights to a wooden balcony. On the side a double opening window with nine-pane fanlights. Above the conservatory a balcony with iron railings and two glazed double doors with four-pane fanlights. In the middle a two-pane cellar window, three coupled six-pane roof windows, and on the upper floor a double opening window with cross window and four-pane fanlight. On the right a door (with fanlight) to a covered courtyard that opens onto the garden, above which on the upper floor likewise a double opening window with four-pane fanlight.

INTERIOR. The original interior from the time of construction has been largely preserved in both floor plan layout and detailing in its original state. On the ground floor in vestibule, hall and corridor black-and-white tile floors (partly marble) in various patterns and in the corridor tile wainscoting (white tiles with corner ornaments in the form of a blue lily). The suite of rooms contain 19th-century fireplace sections with mantels and panelling. The stucco ceilings are richly decorated with characteristic "De Bazel motifs" in which geometric patterns and floral motifs are combined. In the rooms on the upper floor and attic part of the original stucco ceilings, wainscoting, built-in cupboards and panel doors have also been preserved. Furthermore, among others marble fireplace mantels in the two front rooms, in the vestibule two round stained glass windows to a design by De Bazel, and doors which are almost all different and partly provided with small panes.

Valuation

The mansion from 1904-05 is of general importance on account of its architectural and cultural-historical value as a representative and both internally and externally largely intact example from the early oeuvre of De Bazel, which is characterized by a rationalist main form with detailing inspired by Oriental ornaments. The dwelling house is a landmark situated directly next to the dwelling house Wilhelminalaan 2 by Jan Wils.