Plan for a multifunctional sugercane processing building
Knapp, Jan Daniël
Title Leupe: _Teekeningen van de verschillende gebouwen op voornoemde plantagie, zoo als kook-, Keur
en Molenhuis enz._
Part of a series of maps, ground plans and drawings of buildings and other objects from around the year 1752 which can be attributed to the land surveyor and engineer Philippus Marcus Osterlin. Also see VEL1591 and VEL1592.
As part of this series, Osterlin designed this multifunctional building where the harvested sugarcane (the main cash crop grown on the estate) was taken and inspected as well as sorted (in the inspection or sample house) before then being crushed and pressed (in the mill-house) so that the cane sap that was released could then be thickened by boiling until the sugar crystallized (in the boiler-house).
This drawing displays the facade of the sample and boiler house.
The facade of the boiler house is where the ovens are placed, as can be seen in this design.
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