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Design for the new Government House in Nieuw-Amsterdam
Schoonenbeek, Jan van
Title Leupe: Plans, platte gronden, opstanden voor gebouwen voor de nieuwe stad, het gouvernement enz.
After Herlin and Van der Hart’s 1785 designs for a new government house in Berbice had been rejected, Jan van Schoonenbeek also put forward a proposal in 1791, the side view of which is presented here. Following the approval of the directors, this much simpler design than earlier proposals finally became the one that was actually built in 1792-1794.
Scale-bar of 110 [feet] = 12 'strepen'
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