Hendrik Teeken (1900-1950), architectural draftsman (1919), construction supervisor, architect, in 1938 member of the Nederlandsch Instituut van Architecten (in 1940 the NIVA and the Nederlandsche Bond van Bouwmeestergilden merged into the BNA), BNA member (1940), Head of the Office for Housing Allied Troops in Heerlen (1944/45), member of the Board of the BNA Kring Maastricht, plv. district commissioner of the BNA, b. Velsen-op-de-Heide 14-5-1900, deceased Heerlen 6-12-1950, buried Heerlen Akerstraat (grave number RK 2437). Lit: Biography of architect H. Teeken (1900-1950) in the section Mededelingen van de BNA in the Bouwkundig weekblad jrg. 68 (1950), volume 50, page 791. In mid-1918 he settled with his parents at Sterrenstraat 1 in Treebeek/Heerlen, a new and then still under construction residential neighborhood/garden village for miners. Hendrik Teeken was an architectural draftsman in 1919. Hendrik learned the craft of architecture in his dealings with the architectural firm of Eduard Gerard Hendrik Hubert Cuypers (1859-1927), and Eduard in turn was trained at the architectural firm of his famous uncle Pierre J.H. Cuypers. Further research in the archives of Ed Cuypers' office is needed to determine exactly what role(s) Hendrik Teeken fulfilled. It is certain that Hendrik worked as an architectural supervisor in Tilburg and Oss on building projects of Ed Cuypers. According to the population registers of Heerlen and Tilburg, Hendrik Teeken left Heerlen on 24-4-1923 to Tilburg as an architectural supervisor; in Tilburg he lived at Bredascheweg 52 and from 19-6-1923 at the address Korvel 44. At the Korvelplein inTilburg in 1923/24 the Roman Catholic Church Antonius van Padua was built according to a design by architect Ed Cuypers. On 30-6-1924 Hendrik moved from Tilburg to Oss. There played the construction of the Roman Catholic church Gerardus Majella, also according to a design by Ed. Cuypers. On 1-3-1926 he returned to his parents' home in Treebeek. On 1-7-1927 he left for Oss to marry Theodora Henriette Josepha Peskens. He had taken her into the boarding house of her mother, the widow Peskens-IJzermans. On 29-5-1928, the Teeken-Peskens couple settled at 61 Bekkerweg in Heerlen. In 1928 he became involved in the building activities at the St. Jozef Hospital in Heerlen, and in the realization of a Chapel next to the entrance of the St. Jozef Hospital. These plans, too, were still by architect Ed. Cuypers. In 1928 he came to Heerlen for building activities at the St. Jozef Hospital, and for the realization of a Chapel next to the entrance of the St. Jozef Hospital. Hendrik settled permanently in Heerlen and established his own architectural firm there. Frits Peutz (1896-1974) and Hendrik Teeken were appointed by building pastor Victor Hendrik Kellenaers (1896-1972) to make a design for the St. Anne's Church on the Bekkerveld in Heerlen. Hendrik Teeken's involvement came to an abrupt end with his sudden death in 1950. His son Jos Teeken (1934-1983) made some stained glass windows in the church in 1959). Hendrik Teeken designed about 15 houses in Heerlen, often corner houses, such as those on the two corners of Bekkerweg and Doctor Jaegerstraat, and of Kruisstraat and Ambachtsstraat. Hendrik is also the designer of a certain type of herringbone masonry bond, the so-called Teekenverband. Teeken bond. He is the architect of a large villa on the Welterlaan in Heerlen and of the Community House 't Patronaat at Weltertuijnstraat 44/48 in Heerlen/Welten. Hendrik Teeken made the plan for the restoration of the R.C. Church of the Holy Remigius in Klimmen. The church was designed by Petrus Josephus Hubertus (Pierre) Cuypers (1827-1921): Lit; News-Bulletin Royal Dutch Antiquities Association (KNOB), Restoration News, April 1950, 6th series, volume 03, volume 05, page 081. News-Bulletin Royal Dutch Antiquarian Association (KNOB), Restoration News, April 1952, 6th series, year 05, volume 05, pag.045- 048. The architectural office of Hendrik Teeken (1900-1950) was purchased after his death purchased by architect J. Petit Sr. in Heerlen, known for, among other things, the Gerardus Chapel at the Redemptorist monastery in Wittem. Petit then made his start as an architect; he came from Delft, where he broke off his studies early. Petit kept the office at 61 Bekkerweg for several years; after that he moved into an office on Akerstraat in Heerlen. Three of Hendrik's sons became architects; one became an urban planner: - Theodorus Henricus Clara (Theo) Teeken (born Heerlen 11-1-1940) established his own architectural firm in Heerlen (De Lirp 42) in 1975. In 2000 Jules Beckers became his partner. Before 1975, Theo Teeken worked at the architectural firm of Laurens Bisscheroux. - Henricus Joseph Teeken (Henk) (born Heerlen 21-12-1932) is co-owner of the architectural firm Teeken & Beelen in Beverwijk (Gaasterland 8). - Johannes Maria Jozef (Jan) Teeken (born Heerlen 18-1-1931-deceased 2001) had an own architectural office in Brunssum (Prins Hendriklaan 62). - Cornelis Jozef Wilhelmus (Kees) Teeken, born Heerlen 12-3-1948 is urban planner at the municipality of Nijmegen. [Text by ir. Hans R. van der Woude, February 2012] Lit: Inventory of the archives of E. Cuypers (1859-1927). Archives 1886-1929, by M. Claessens; Netherlands Architecture Institute 1992/2005