Design for a weigh house
Herlin, Jan Carel Willem
Title Leupe: Plans, platte gronden, opstanden voor gebouwen voor de nieuwe stad, het gouvernement enz.
The military engineer Jan Carel Willem Herlin, who arrived in Berbice early in 1780 and was d’Arnaud’s successor, drew a design in that same year for the new main guard in Fort Nassau (in fact still the provisional fortifications of 1764). His simple plan for a small weigh house shown here was possibly also made in 1780. However, both designs only reached the Republic in 1785. The draft shows a floor plan and two front views. In response to his proposals, the directors informed him that this and subsequent plans for Nieuw-Amsterdam would not be required because they had meanwhile asked Abraham van der Hart to produce a whole new range of plans for the town.
Scale-bar of 24 Rhineland feet = [approximately 1 : 65].
Taken from: Report of Herlin to the Director on 15 September 1785.
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