Eeklo
Waarschoot and Eeklo — from the De Dam café to Raamstraat
From Waarschoot to Eeklo, this route brings together seven Art Deco buildings from 1927 to 1939. It starts, in Waarschoot (Lievegem), at a corner house of 1929, now the De Dam café, with pilasters crowned by stepped tops, then reaches Eeklo, with a 1927 house that the inventory record describes as preserved intact and a 1938 house with geometric stained-glass fanlights. It then passes two works by Alexander Meuleman built by the Edouard Heene firm: the Verbiest house (1938-1939), next to the Pola bicycle factory, whose façade belongs to the so-called “streamline” (paquebot) style and which has been a protected monument since 2004, and the house of the textile manufacturer Arthur Penneman (1933), which retains its Art Deco interior. It ends at a shop-house by Ch. Sestig (1935) and a 1938 house whose joinery is all original.
7 stops · Duration 2h45 · Distance 5,5 km
Café De Dam — Waarschoot (Lievegem)
Corner house, now the café known as De Dam, built in 1929 in the Art Deco style.
Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Patersstraat 51 — Eeklo
Art Deco house preserved intact, built in 1927 according to the land registry archives.
Maison Art déco, Collegestraat 34 — Eeklo
Simple Art Deco house, built in 1938 according to the land registry archives.
Maison Verbiest — Eeklo
In 1938 the bicycle manufacturer Maurice Verbiest-Verstraete commissioned the architect Alexander Meuleman to design a new dwelling house next to the "Pola Rijwielen" bicycle factory.
Maison Penneman — Eeklo
House of the textile manufacturer Arthur Penneman, built in 1933 to a design by the architect Alex Meuleman, as the plinth stone records, by the contractor Edouard Heene; it replac
Maison de commerce Art déco, Kerkstraat 54
Art Deco shop-house built in 1935, according to the building permit, to plans by the architect Ch.
Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Raamstraat 30 — Eeklo
Art Deco house built in 1938 according to the land registry archives.
Translated from the French original.