Woonhuis, Weesperzijde 26

English translation

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Description

Introduction

A TOWNHOUSE incorporated into the street frontage, built in 1887 in Eclectic style with a GARDEN HOUSE in the rear garden. The residence was built to a design by A. Salm GBzn. for H.W. Nijman. Salm designed for this entrepreneur on the Weesperzijde on a chamfered plot a row of five townhouses, in which he experimented with diverse stylistic forms. In the rear garden is the concrete garden house dating from the period 1915-1917, the same period in which the residence was renovated, to a design by Salm.

Description

On a chamfered rectangular ground plan, a residence built in grey/red brick in English bond, under a shallow-pitched pitched roof, with a narrow extension of the staircase at the (plastered) rear. The residence, comprising three bays and asymmetrically arranged, has four storeys: basement, bel-étage and two upper storeys. In the broad section, right, the windows on all storeys are set in a band of natural stone decorative blocks, junction and setting stones. On the ground floor a moulded sandstone plinth. In the left bay the entrance. In the broad right section the basement window is placed in a double row of decorative blocks. The arched course has five decorative blocks. In front of the window decorative wrought-iron railings are placed. Above the basement runs a natural stone decorative band. On the bel-étage is located a wooden bay window resting on consoles, above the hip roof a fifteen-pane fanlight and above the flanking windows six-pane fanlights. The mouldings above and below are furnished with decorative carved work. The rectangular bay window supports the balcony of the third storey. The balcony has a simple balustrade with vertical balusters between the setting posts. In the recessed window frame opening doors, with a fifteen-pane fanlight, give access to this balcony. The narrow side windows have six-pane fanlights. In the spandrel of the basket arch decorative laid decorative tiles are applied. Below the top gable are two windows with eight-pane fanlights and stone lintels. The spandrel of the segmental arch above both windows is plastered. The stepped top gable with coping stones has neo-Renaissance buttresses at the base and at the top a decorative wrought-iron hoisting beam. The attic window is located beneath a round arch. The left section has a neo-Renaissance entrance in which the fluted pilasters carry a round arch. The parquetted door has a fan-shaped fanlight. The keystone, in the form of a lion's head, carries a horizontal moulding with above it a double round-arch window beneath a pediment. This aedicula is flanked by obelisks on vases and has, like the entrance itself, wing pieces. The three-sided bay window rests on a plinth, terminating in a console. The cassettes at the underside have diamond heads; window frame wood and mouldings are decoratively carved. The zinc-clad spire has a round-arch lantern with owl-shaped roof covering. In the spire is a small roof dormer beneath its own, constricted, spire. The roof dormer too has a constricted, strongly projecting, spire. The rear facade has on the bel-étage a veranda beneath a shallow-pitched sloped roof with carved moulding on decoratively worked wooden supports.

Of the original interior, apart from the original layout, there remain the (stuccoed and painted) ceilings, the fireplaces, the panelled, glass and sliding doors including hardware, the built-in cupboards, the interior leaded glass windows, some with historic glass and the wainscoting. In addition the house has a number of specific characteristics. The marble and marbled hall is entirely original. The basement has in the corridor a special tiled floor and in the reception room at the front a tiled floor, a painted beam ceiling and broad fireplace. The rooms on the bel-étage and the storey above each have a different ceiling with matching chimneypieces. The back room on the bel-étage has a majolica chimneypiece and a matching washstand. The front room has a chimneypiece with small columns. The transitions to the conservatories on the storey are accented by respectively a wooden (front) and a wrought-iron (rear) hanging frieze. On the storey the front room has a marble chimneypiece, the back room has a fireplace with Delft blue hearth tiles and a bosom supported by Doric columns. The staircase with the built-in toilet facility is entirely original. The house has a central heating installation from the interwar period.

The three bays wide (cast) concrete garden house, originally on a chamfered ground plan, beneath a flat roof has centrally double garden doors with in the fanlight a six-pane glazing bar division. The same division is found in the flanking hip roof windows in the fanlight. The panels below these windows are divided into sections. A similar division, but simpler, is found in the wainscoting on the interior.

Valuation

The townhouse, with accompanying garden house, on the Weesperzijde from 1887 is of general importance by reason of its cultural and architectural-historical value as an intact example of richly detailed neo-Renaissance residences, both in interior and exterior aspects, developed by private commissioners for the well-to-do class, as well as by reason of its place in the oeuvre of architect A. Salm GBzn. The residence is of general urban-planning importance by reason of ensemble value as a visually defining component of the late nineteenth-century riverfront on the east side of the Amstel.