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Merchant’s house
A house that was extended and later divided.
Gerrit Caeskoper had this house built on the Zaan river in 1686. Over the decades that followed it was extended several times. In around 1740 the well-to-do Honig family took up residence here. They had it extended further in around 1770, giving it its U-shaped form. In the sun room, with its view over the water, the men and women would relax and enjoy a drink, smoke a pipe or play games. The merchant, however, probably spent most of his time in his office to the right of the front door, as the family had significant stakes in a wide range of industries: from the trade in oil-bearing seeds through to whaling and a ship’s biscuit bakery. In 1890 less affluent occupants converted the house into two homes.
1686. Relocated here in 1940.