Het Schielandshuis
Seventeenth-century city palace built for a water board, later home to a founding art museum.
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This guide to the Schielandshuis in Rotterdam follows the money behind one of the city's few surviving seventeenth-century buildings. It moves between the water board that raised the house in the sixteen-sixties, a Maastricht-born collector who fell on hard times and went looking for a buyer, and a February night in eighteen sixty-four when fire broke out in the basement. Best heard standing in front of the facade on Korte Hoogstraat.
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