In the reel

Originating from Grote Staat 54, from "The Golden Windmill". Together with "The Helmet" on the Vrijthof it belonged to the renowned inns in Maastricht. This house, already called "The Windmill" in 1428, has a small mill icon on the first Maastricht map of 1581.
It was also mentioned in the trial against father Vinck in 1638.
In the 18th century "the Windmill" was the residence of the gentlemen deciseurs, the delegates of their powers, when they visited the city every two years to settle the pending disputes. It was apparently a hotel of standing. Voltaire and Gagliostro are also said to have stayed there. On 1 March 1763 the Maastricht Masonic Lodge La Persévérance was founded here.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century it was a kind of grocery store. Cecile De Ceuleneer-Clooten processed and sold tea, chicory and especially tobacco in her "maison enseignée du Moulinet, rue Grand Staat no. 691". In 1968 the store was extensively renovated. The half-timbered side wall on the Dominican corridor disappeared. The gable stone, which possibly bore the caption IN THE REEL 1748, was the subject of a great deal of wrangling between the municipality and Schnabel as to whether or not it was structurally feasible to replace the stone in its former place. It took so long that, without permission and sneakily, the stone was replaced in a wall that happened to be under construction in Havenstraat, thus avoiding the need to cut a hole somewhere else. And apparently everyone was satisfied with that.

And replaced by the new construction of the fashion shop Schnabel on the corner of Grote Staat / Dominicanerkstraat.