Three houses by Frans Smet-Verhas
Address Waterloostraat, 16
City/Neighborhood Antwerp
Style(s)
- Art Nouveau
Original use
- Habitat
Année 1901
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
- Smet-Verhas Frans
Remarkable elements
- Tiles-Ceramics
- Ironwork
- Masonry work-Layout
Right next to the corner house "de Lente", architect Frans Smet-Verhas built, in 1901, a beautiful set of three houses, wise but well designed. Facade in yellow bricks, embellished with red bands.
The middle house stands out from the other two twin houses.
The three windows on the first floors are perfectly identical with their round arches and their Art Nouveau woodwork, surmounted by a pointed arch.
A beautiful work of darker bricks decorates the facade reproducing medieval Masonic signs. The top of the set elegantly completes these facades with offset cornices and a series of stone pilasters.
Frans Smet will design more "daring" facades in the years that follow, "De Slag van Waterloo" in 1905 and “De vijf wereldeelen” in 1901.
The set was classified in July 1984
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