[1] A plaque on one side of the building commemorates Czar Peter the Great, who may have stayed here in 1697 during his apprenticeship at the Amsterdam shipyards.

The covered ropewalk behind the building stretched some 500 meters to the IJ bay, between the Oostenburgervaart canal and Conradstraat.

The trapezoid-shaped facade dates to 1660 and is richly decorated with festoons, two oeil-de-boeuf-windows and niches with arched tops, some stretching vertically over both floors.

The top of the facade is decorated with a sculpture of two lions with bronze swords resting against a coat of arms showing two crossed blue anchors, the symbol of the Admiralty of Amsterdam.

Over the course of the 19th century, the building and adjacent Ropewalk of the Dutch East India Company were left to slowly decay.

This sculpture originally stood on the back facade of the ropewalk complex and had, after the demolition around 1920, ended up in the garden of the National Maritime Museum.

A back facade was also added to the building, created out of bricks from demolished warehouses on Bickersgracht canal.