page_title: Teylers Hofje
section_title: History of the foundation
hierarchical_section_title: Teylers Hofje / History of the foundation
caption_attribution_description: Front of Vrouwe- en Antonie Gasthuys showing the main building from 1648 gate flanked by the 'new' wings from 1730. Located behind the Frans Hals Museum.
context_page_description: The Teylershofje is a hofje in Haarlem, Netherlands with 24 houses.
context_section_description: The current hofje was built in 1787 from the legacy of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, just like the Teylers Museum close to it. Pieter Teyler van der Hulst founded a hofje when his wife died in 1752 and he then purchased the Kolder hofje. That hofje was considerably renovated during his lifetime, but he found it still needed improvements for the residents. In his will he stipulated that a new hofje should be built in his name and the old hofje premises sold (and the premises were then sold to the oldest surviving hofje foundation in Haarlem, the 'Vrouwe- en Antonie Gasthuys'). The "new" hofje is by far the most impressive and imposing hofje in Haarlem.
caption: The hofje currently known as the Vrouwe- en Antonie Gasthuis on the Klein Heiligland behind the Frans Hals Museum, was originally built by Pieter Joosten Boogaert as a Mennonite hofje in ca. 1620. Teyler bought it several generations later in 1752 from the Mennonite Coymans.
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