Amsterdam and Park Plaza Victoria Hotel. Old Cards is a photograph by Jenny Rainbow which was uploaded on August 23rd, 2017.
Amsterdam and Park Plaza Victoria Hotel. Old Cards
Amsterdam and Park Plaza Victoria Hotel. Old Cards by Jenny Rainbow.... more
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Amsterdam and Park Plaza Victoria Hotel. Old Cards
Artist
Jenny Rainbow
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Photograph - Photography
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Amsterdam and Park Plaza Victoria Hotel. Old Cards by Jenny Rainbow.
Amsterdam street scenes processed with vintage style like old historical cards.
The whole collection of Old Cards from Amsterdam images together on the walls make a great stylish appearance for the interior design of hotels, restaurants, bars or for home wall in specific style.
The Victoria Hotel opened its doors on August 19, 1890 after intensive constructions.
The German architect J.F Henkenhaf started the whole idea for a hotel in 1883 when he founded the company N.V. Hotelonderneming Victoria Hotel.
He strategically planned the hotel across the Amsterdam Central Station, on the corner of Damrak and Prins Hendrikkade. In order to build his hotel he had the tear down a few of the original houses on the Damrak and buy some properties that were not yet in his posession on Prins Hendrikkade. Henkenhaf and his partner were also the architects of the Kurhaus in Scheveningen that opened in 1885.
Apparently they were motivated after their successful expansion of an other hotel in Amsterdam, Krasnapolsky.
Damrak 1 was known as the house with the small tower which is still a characteristic landmark of Amsterdam when you arrive through the Central Station main entrance.
He also tried to obtain the buildings of numbers 47 and 45 on Prins Hendrikkade but he never managed due to high prices. That is why up to today the hotel is built around these two buildings, now souvenir shops.
Source: http://www.zwangerschapsoutlet.nl/history.html
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August 23rd, 2017