The Poortgebouw is a national monument at Stieltjesstraat 38 in the Kop van Zuid area of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, a monumental four-story brick building with two wings and connecting floors spanning the road beneath, built beside the River Maas in 1879 to a design by architect J. S. C. van de Wall. After passing through a range of uses, the building was squatted on 3 October 1980 and legalized as a housing cooperative in 1982, and it now provides residential housing managed by the Vereniging Poortgebouw. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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1. Poortgebouw (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poortgebouw, lead definition
The Poortgebouw is a national monument located at Stieltjesstraat 38 in the Kop van Zuid area of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The Poortgebouw is a national monument at Stieltjesstraat 38 in the Kop van Zuid area of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, a monumental four-story brick building with two wings and connecting floors spanning the road beneath, built beside the River Maas in 1879 to a design by architect J. S. C. van de Wall. After passing through a range of uses, the building was squatted on 3 October 1980 and legalized as a housing cooperative in 1982, and it now provides residential housing managed by the Vereniging Poortgebouw.
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Monument)
The Poortgebouw is a national monument located at Stieltjesstraat 38 in the Kop van Zuid area of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was built beside the River Maas in 1879 and experienced a range of uses until it was squatted 3 October 1980. It had been standing empty for 2 years and was squatted as a protest intended to highlight the lack of affordable residential housing in Rotterdam.
Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia article
It is a monumental four storey brick building, with two wings and connecting floors which span the road beneath.
View the Source2. Poortgebouw (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1879)
Wikidata item Q1417159, property P571: 1879
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Wikidata item Q1417159, property P131/P17 (location): Rotterdam, Netherlands
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