Coymanshuis

The double wide house was designed and built in 1625 by Jacob van Campen for two brothers, traders/bankers; one had six the other ten children.

The house was praised by the writer-architects Cornelis Danckerts de Ry and Salomon de Bray in their book Architectura Moderna in 1631.

[1] The house and office was home to various members of the Coymans family until it was inhabited by Jan Pieter Theodoor Huydecoper in 1759.

In 1887 it was sold to the city of Amsterdam, serving for a long time as a secondary school.

Since 2003 it is an office building, sheltering the Netherlands headquarters of Amnesty International and since 2014 also other, related organizations.