The Dutch House
| The Dutch House | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The house in 2010 |
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| location | Brookline , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 20 '9.7 " N , 71 ° 6' 52.3" W | ||
| surface | 15,850 ft² (1,472.5 m² ) | ||
| Built | 1893 | ||
| architect | M. Guillaume Wyuen | ||
| Architectural style | Neo-renaissance | ||
| NRHP number | 86000093 | ||
| The NRHP added | January 24, 1986 | ||
The Dutch House is now a residential house in Brookline in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . It was built by the Van Houten chocolate factory on the occasion of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and moved to its current location after the exhibition ended. In 1986 it was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places .
history
The house was constructed in the Netherlands and Belgium in 1893 and erected in Chicago as an exhibition building for the chocolate factory's products. It is a direct copy of the town hall of the Dutch city of Franeker , built in 1591 , which is why the structure is now considered the best example of Dutch Neo-Renaissance in the United States. Charles Brooks Appleton, who lives in Brookline, liked the building so much during his visit to the World's Fair that he bought it at auction after the exhibition ended, had it demolished and rebuilt at its current location.
The building is four stories high, with the top two floors already within the raised mansard roof , on which there is a dome and a bell tower . The windows have a total of more than 12,000 individual panes of green lead glass , the surface of which adds up to almost 93 m². The brick-built outer walls were partially covered with cement , which was given a stone-like appearance. The doors and other wooden elements were made in Hindeloopen , with the main entrance based on the entrance door of the orphanage in Enkhuizen . In the former dining room, the walls are decorated with original blue and white Delft ceramics that are over 300 years old and show stories from the Bible .
See also
literature
- National Register of Historic Places Inventory Form. (PDF; 8.1 MB) Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, 1980, accessed on April 25, 2017 (English, accessible via the "NR" button).