A couple of days ago I wrote about the house with the smallest facade in Amsterdam (here).
Amsterdam has more of these tiny houses. The smallest house of my home city is at Oude Hoogstraat at number 22. It has 4 floors and is about 5 meters deep and is only 2,02 meter wide.
This house also known as the smallest house in Europe. If that claim is true, I must say I cannot tell. What I do know it is pretty tiny.
Image: Smallest house of Amsterdam
Another tiny house in Amsterdam is at the Kloverniersburgwal number 26. The facade is 2,44 meters wide and is called "Het Kleine Trippenhuis" also know as "Huis van de koetsier van de heer Trip"; translated in English this means something like "House of the coachman of mister Trip".
Image: "Het Kleine Trippenhuis" once home to the coachman of brothers Trip
Opposite to "Het Kleine Trippenhuis", is the "Trippenhuis"; with its 22 meters facade this is considered the widest house of Amsterdam. Around 1660 the brothers Trip (earned their fortune with trading) lived here. The story goes, their coachman ones said: "I will be very happy with a house equal to the width of the front door of my masters". When the brothers Trip heard this, they ordered to build "Het Kleine Trippenhuis" for their coachman.
Image: "Trippenhuis" once home to brothers Trip
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