Water Tower, Hoorn
date: label: Date
content: August 23, 1887
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet depicting a large, eclectically adorned masonry Romanesque structure with later additions. The building's main elevation terminates in a corner, while the rest of the building is rounded toward the rear. Very small timber-frame structures are seen in the foreground. The building's character is in keeping with the Northern Renaissance style: it has a steeply pitched roof culminating in a large, four-sided clocktower with a galleried, octagonal double cupola and tall ornamental finial. The façade's lower elevation consists of a row of blind trefoils, a row of small windows above, and another small blind arcade before the attic story. There are turrets at the façade corners, and another in the center of the façade upon which sits a unicorn bearing the arms of the town of Hoorn. A date plaque above reads 1532-1651 in a banner. Visible at the rear of the building is a rounded façade with blind arcade.
place: label: made in
content: Hoorn, Netherlands
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. William Greenough
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1943-51-105
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 32 x 23.7 cm (12 5/8 x 9 5/16 in.), irregular