Monuments

El Castillo, Wilhelminastraat * 1900’s

Category: Monuments Lost
Location: intersection Kruisweg/Wilhelminastraat
Period built: early 1900’s
Status: demolished

This monumental building was located at the intersection of Kruisweg and Wilhelminastraat. Owner was Jacobus Albertsz Arends.

Photographer Jan Bonke had his studio in this building.
This is him posing with his wife and kid.

The building fell into disrepair and was torn down in the 1980s. The open space is used as a uncovered parking lot, across from the Mario S. Arends building, the police station for many years.