Plan for a new building for the government at the Demerara River
Hart, Abraham van der
Title Leupe: Grondteekeningen en opstanden van Militaire en Burgerlyke gebouwen te Demerary, van verschillende groote en afmeetingen.
The two elevation drawings and ground plans included in the fine design shown here are linked to plans for a projected new government building for Stabroek and were created in 1802 in anticipation of the return of the Batavian administration to Demerara by Abraham van der Hart, director of works and buildings in Amsterdam.
Twenty years earlier, Van der Hart had had an important role in the preliminary plans for a new layout of the main town of New Amsterdam in the neighbouring colony of Berbice.
As far as is known, in the short period between 1802 and the permanent British occupation commencing in 1804, no start was made on the execution of his government building plans for Demerara.
North is left / below.
Also see VEL1564.12.
Scale-bar of 70 Rhineland feet = [approximately 1 : 170].
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