Stone house

House in Louis XVI style.

The property was called the Stone house. Although there is no Gable stone here , the front of this building may be called a facade ornament. The facade is made entirely of bluestone. The lintel of the door is decorated with garlands and a mascaron. On the second floor there is a richly decorated frame. The centre window and the pediments on either side bear a relief of armorial trophies. Above the centre window is a tympanum with a relief of foliage surrounding a portrait medallion.

fragments from the past:

In this house 40-year-old Anna Sibilla Hubertina van den Boorn gave birth to a son called Antonius on 16 March 1880. The mother was not married, as she had become the widow of Jan Gilles van Lijf on 22 May 1877. Her youngest child was only six months old at the time. Who the father was of little Antonius is not known. Officially Anna did not live in Maastricht, but her official residence was Amby. Perhaps she had decided (under pressure?) not to give birth to her child in Amby. Seven days after the birth of Antonius, who was given his mother's surname, fate struck: the youngest child of Anna and her late husband Jan Gillis died on 23 March 1880 at the age of 3. Franciscus van Lijf was his name.

At the time of these events in 1880 Anna's sister lived a stone's throw away: she and her husband Jan Laurens Cremers lived with their family at the address Rechtstraat 93, on the corner with Hoogbrugstraat. They ran a store and inn there.

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The archive picture from 1928 shows that at the time the Wycker bread factory Starmans-Reaven was located in the building.

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