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Historic Buildings

Schreierstoren, built as a defence tower in 1481, is now a café
Schreierstoren
De Gooyer Windmill
1 4
MAP H4 • Funenkade 5
MAP Q2 • Prins
Hendrikkade 94–5 If you are lucky, you might see the
The Schreierstoren (Tower of Tears) vast, streamlined sails of this
is one of Amsterdam’s oldest 18th-century corn mill creak into
buildings (see p14) – a surviving motion. Built in 1725, the whole
fragment of the medieval city wall. octagonal structure was
painstakingly moved to its
In’t Aepjen
2 present site in 1814.
One of two remaining wood-
Pintohuis
fronted houses in Amsterdam (see 5
p26), In’t Aepjen was built in 1550 as MAP P4 • Sint
a sailors’ hostel, and is now a bar. Antoniesbreestraat 69
The name means “In the monkeys”; Named after the Portuguese
when sailors couldn’t pay, they would merchant Isaac de Pinto, who paid
barter – sometimes with pet an exorbitant 30,000 guilders for it
monkeys (see p84). in 1651, the building boasts an
Italianate façade, a Louis XIV-style
Oost-Indisch Huis
3 chimney piece and 18th-century
ceiling paintings. The ground floor is
MAP P4 • Oude Hoogstraat 24
(entrance Kloveniersburgwal 48) now a library, run by local volunteers.
• 020 525 7275
The impressive red-brick façade,
with its ornate entrance and stone-
dressed windows, was the height of
corporate fashion. Headquarters of
the once mighty Dutch East India
Company (VOC), it was built in 1605,
probably by Hendrick de Keyser, and
is now part of Amsterdam University.
The 17th-century meeting room of
the VOC lords has been restored.
Pintohuis interior

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