Hotel de Ville, Louvain, Belgium – Historic Print
![Hotel de Ville, Louvain, Belgium, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fb/fb4a4785ba50-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Hotel de Ville, Louvain, Belgium comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hotel de Ville, Louvain, Belgium
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The town hall in Louvain, now Leuven, rises over the Grote Markt as one of the finest late Gothic civic buildings in the Low Countries, its facade crowded with tiers of pointed niches and statues. Construction began in the mid-15th century, when prosperous cloth-trade guilds and city magistrates wanted a building that proclaimed the town's wealth and independence. The caption card gives no date for this print, and the photographer is recorded only as "ND," so its exact age and maker remain unconfirmed. Even so, the view shows the building as a monument of civic pride, with the market square and its surrounding houses in the frame.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by ND. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,152 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-107687 |
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