Historic Cities
Walk Antwerp in 1910
AI rebuilds Antwerpen (Antwerp) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Red Star Line Antwerp, 1910
This is Antwerp at the height of its transatlantic and industrial moment: steamliners of the Red Star Line load emigrants at the Rijnkaai while diamond workshops hum behind the Pelikaanstraat. The walk moves from the Scheldt quays past the old Steen and the Stock Exchange, through the diamond quarter and the new Centraal Station to the ornate Art Nouveau avenues of Zurenborg.
35 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Antwerp as it stood in 1910 (“Antwerp”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Approach from the Scheldt
- 2. Rijnkaai (Emigrant Quay)
- ↳ Red Star Line Booking Office · interior
- 3. Quayside Inspection Lines
- ↳ Emigrant Inspection Hall · interior
- 4. Het Steen (Old Castle)
- ↳ Castle Gate Hall · interior
- 5. Steenplein and Riverside
- 6. Suikerrui (Sugar Quay)
- ↳ Dockside Coaster Café · interior
- 7. Vlaeykensgang (Medieval Alley)
- 8. Grote Markt (Town Square)
- ↳ Town Hall Council Chamber · interior
- 9. Beurs (Stock Exchange)
- ↳ Commodities Exchange Floor · interior
- 10. Meir (Principal Shopping Street)
- ↳ Grand Drapery Salon · interior
- 11. Schuttershofstraat
- 12. Pelikaanstraat (Diamond Quarter)
- ↳ Diamond Cutter's Bench · interior
- 13. Schupstraat (Lapidary Streets)
- ↳ Master Lapidary Workshop · interior
- 14. Hoveniersstraat (Workshop Row)
- ↳ Finished Stone Sorting Room · interior
- 15. Posthofplein (Working Square)
- ↳ Harbour Warehouse Sorting Room · interior
- 16. Stationsplein (Station Square)
- 17. Antwerpen-Centraal (Train Facade)
- ↳ Marble Booking Hall · interior
- 18. Viaduct over the Tracks
- 19. Paardenstraat (Eastward Throat)
- 20. Cogels-Osylei (Zurenborg)
- ↳ Art Nouveau Drawing Room · interior
- 21. Zurenborg Square
- 22. Station Viaduct Vantage