Wooden Houses, Ypres: Wooden house with elaborate, decorated gable

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posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie

View taken before damage in World War I (May, 1915).\u000a\u000aIn 1241 there was a fire in the city which destroyed many of the wooden buildings. The wooden house in the Rijselsestraat is a reconstruction of a 16th century house. At the beginning of the 19th century Ypres had more than 90 wooden houses.

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Date Created

1910-01-01

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2017-06-30

Spatial Coverage

Ypres, Flanders, Belgium|Ypres

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

Sixteenth century

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