Aletta Jacobs
Aletta Jacobs (1854-1929), the first female doctor in the Netherlands and an advocate for women’s rights, lived here from 1876 to 1879. She studied fo...
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Ambachtsschool De Geus/ Ingwersen
The Derde Ambachtsschool (guild school) on the Timorplein (square) opened its doors in 1912. The building, in the plain Rational Architecture style, b...
Amstelstation
Both Muiderpoort station and Amstel station, designed by architect Schelling, came into use on the same day: 15 October 1939, exactly 50 years after t...
Amsterdam Museum Noord and Vogeldorp
The residents of the surrounding areas came to the old Gemeente Badhuis (municipal baths), now the Amsterdam Museum Noord, for their daily bath. The h...
Amsterdamsche Huishoudschool (nu Stayokay)
This used to be the premises of the Amsterdam domestic science school where, up till 1969, girls learned the skills that were needed to run a househol...
Andries de Graeff
This house, ‘De Keyzershoedt’ (The Emperor’s hat), was the birthplace of Andries de Graeff (1611-1678), mayor of Amsterdam, art collector and patron o...
Association’s building Handwerkers Vriendenkring (Craftsmen Circle of Friends)
The Handwerkers Vriendenkring (Craftsmen Circle of Friends), established in 1869, was an organised interest association that aimed to promote the eman...
Badhuistheater
The bathhouse on the Andreas Bonnstraat (street) was considered to have the ideal bathhouse design in the 1920’s. It was the first free standing bathh...
Badhuis Diamantbuurt (Public Baths)
In the heart of the Diamantbuurt neighbourhood of Amsterdam, these former municipal public baths were opened in 1926. At that time the houses in the a...
Javaplein/ Badhuys
The bathhouse the Javaplein (square) in the Indische Buurt (neighbourhood) is one of the last municipal bathhouses to be built. Most of the bathhouse...
Bellamyplein
The area around the current Bellamyplein (square) used to be a rural, water rich area with sawmills and polder houses. From 1880, building work gradua...
Berlagebrug
A new bridge across the Amstel (river) at the Amstellaan (avenue), now the Vrijheidslaan was needed to connect the new neighbourhoods of Plan Zuid, Be...
