In the seventeenth century a new fashion developed among the welltodo citizens of the Dutch Republic: owning and maintaining a country estate. This term (buitenplaats, literally ‘outside place’, in Dutch) has been defined as a substantial residence with a designed garden, garden ornaments and outbuildings. Country estates were not usually isolated structures in the landscape, but were built in clusters, as we can see from seventeenth and eighteenth century waterboard maps. In the area round Amsterdam they could be found on the banks of the River Amstel and in Watergraafsmeer, somewhat further from the city along waterways such as the Vecht, the Angstel, the Gaasp, the Gein, the Holendrecht and the Trekvaart barge canal, on Herenweg along Wi...
During the eighteenth century there appeared a very substantial illustrated historical-topographical...
In 1592, the Enkhuizen town council decided to develop a sizeable urban expansion. As luck would hav...
In the eighteenth century, at a forty years' interval, two large new buildings arose at Westzaan, a ...
In the seventeenth century a new fashion developed among the welltodo citizens of the Dutch Republic...
Especially in the eighteenth century many country-houses adorned the environment of the village Vels...
About 1700 a sober noble man's house called 'Hackfort' was built on the place of a ruinous castle su...
Vollenhoven in De Bilt is one of the country estates that earned the region between Utrecht and Wage...
Renaissance topographies are written as chronicles in which landscape, architecture and historic eve...
In the beginning of the Dutch war of independence (1568-1648) it was particularly the countryside th...
The article provides insight into the phenomenon of the ‘traditional Dutch room’ as an icon of the D...
One of the unmistakable trends in current country house research is the growing interest in the land...
Recently a sheet with a design for a government building in the former Dutch colony Demerary has bee...
The Dutch lowlands consist mainly of polders, areas where water levels are artificially controlled s...
The Dutch buitenplaats, literally ‘country-place’, is commonly used to describe a complex of house a...
The history of the village of Haarzuilens is unique for The Netherlands. The relocation of the villa...
During the eighteenth century there appeared a very substantial illustrated historical-topographical...
In 1592, the Enkhuizen town council decided to develop a sizeable urban expansion. As luck would hav...
In the eighteenth century, at a forty years' interval, two large new buildings arose at Westzaan, a ...
In the seventeenth century a new fashion developed among the welltodo citizens of the Dutch Republic...
Especially in the eighteenth century many country-houses adorned the environment of the village Vels...
About 1700 a sober noble man's house called 'Hackfort' was built on the place of a ruinous castle su...
Vollenhoven in De Bilt is one of the country estates that earned the region between Utrecht and Wage...
Renaissance topographies are written as chronicles in which landscape, architecture and historic eve...
In the beginning of the Dutch war of independence (1568-1648) it was particularly the countryside th...
The article provides insight into the phenomenon of the ‘traditional Dutch room’ as an icon of the D...
One of the unmistakable trends in current country house research is the growing interest in the land...
Recently a sheet with a design for a government building in the former Dutch colony Demerary has bee...
The Dutch lowlands consist mainly of polders, areas where water levels are artificially controlled s...
The Dutch buitenplaats, literally ‘country-place’, is commonly used to describe a complex of house a...
The history of the village of Haarzuilens is unique for The Netherlands. The relocation of the villa...
During the eighteenth century there appeared a very substantial illustrated historical-topographical...
In 1592, the Enkhuizen town council decided to develop a sizeable urban expansion. As luck would hav...
In the eighteenth century, at a forty years' interval, two large new buildings arose at Westzaan, a ...