Wooden houses
You can find 181 wooden national monuments in Amsterdam, and 175 of those in Noord. What with the area’s many second hand furniture stores, Noord is well and truly the city’s vintage shop. If you now turn your back on the hundred meter tall, marble tower of the Maritim Hotel, and look across the water to Buiksloterweg, you will catch a glimpse of some antique wood.
Hunting for antiques
See those picturesque houses along the dyke? You will find the old wooden police station on the corner at number 9b.But wait, there is more. You can go hunting for wooden antiques in the many former villages of Waterland, like Nieuwendam, Schellingwoude, Durgerdam, Ransdorp and Buiksloot.
Buiksloterweg 9B, Police station, 1921, Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Buiksloterdijk 214 - 216 (ged.) v.r.n.l, 1953 ca. to 1995 ca., Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Top image: Nieuwendammerdijk 229 (ged.)-241. Right at the back Nieuwendammerdijk 232, 1957, Stadsarchief Amsterdam
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To the storyThe Buiksloot police station
Story by Koen Kleijn for Ons Amsterdam
Before the annexation of the Buiksloot municipality, Amsterdam's Public Works Department built a police post on Buiksloterweg, near the Voorhaven of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal.
To the storyHistoric Noord walk
Walk from the Stadswandelkantoor
Fragments of Amsterdam Noord are among the most picturesque in Amsterdam: the centuries-old Nieuwendammerdijk and Schellingwouderdijk. Behind the dike is an Amsterdam School garden village. And further along, the idyllic early 20th-century garden villages Disteldorp and Vogeldorp. The City Walk Office creates a route through this beautiful district.
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