Design for the new quarters for administrators and clerks in Nieuw- Amsterdam
Hart, Abraham van der
Title Leupe: Plans, platte gronden, opstanden voor gebouwen voor de nieuwe stad, het gouvernement enz.
This drawing is part of the plans designed by Abraham van der Hart for the Society of Berbice in the years 1779-1781. These are a profile and front view of the new quarters for administrators and clerks which on Van der Hart’s general plan for the new governmental complex on map VEL1662.42, is given as building no. 5. Two floors are shown and all rooms are designated, including the kitchens.
Due to the British conquest of Berbice in March 1781, this plan could not be sent to the Republic immediately. After Berbice had been returned to the Society in 1784, the first plans for a completely new main town at the confluence of the Berbice and Canje Rivers followed in the very next year and Van der Hart’s 1779-1781 project was abandoned altogether.
Scale-bar: 70 Rhineland feet = 12 'strepen'
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