Antonius Cornelis Boerma (17 August 1852, in

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...

– 26 August 1908, in

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) was a Dutch architect. Raised in Leiden, he spent most of his life in Amsterdam. In

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designed the

Huis met de Kabouters The Huis met de Kabouters (Dutch for "House with the Gnomes") is a 19th-century building in Amsterdam, so named because the facade is decorated with two figures of gnomes. The building has held ''rijksmonument'' status since 1984. The house is at ...

, the Lutkie & Smit building on Nieuwendijk, the Bestelhuis van den Boekhandel on Spuistraat, the Café 'De Bisschop' on the corner of the

Damrak The Damrak is an avenue and partially filled in canal at the centre of Amsterdam, running between Amsterdam Centraal in the north and Dam Square in the south. It is the main street where people arriving at the station enter the centre of Amsterdam ...

, and he co-designed the Veemarkt in

Cruquiuseiland Cruquiuseiland (English: Cruquius Island) is a suburb the Eastern Docklands in the Zeeburg district of Amsterdam. The majority of the area is the man-made Cruquius Island itself, although some adjacent land is also part of the area. It is border ...

. He also built many Catholic churches and buildings for institutions, both in Amsterdam and elsewhere in the Netherlands.Boerma, A.C.
at the Dutch Architectural Institute Huis met de kabouters amsterdam detail

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1852 births 1908 deaths Dutch architects People from Leiden {{Netherlands-architect-stub