Text taken from website: http://www.vanzeggeren.nl/familytree/architectenbureau.htm Hendrikus Hermanus (Hein) van Zeggeren (Velp 1/12/1882 -Velp 13/7/1974) attended the Lorenz HBS-B in Arnhem. He learned the architectural profession in practice from the Velp architect W. Honig, who built many villas, houses and also schools in that town and its surroundings. Between 1900 and 1915, a villa park was built in Velp on the Overbeek estate by architect Honig and garden architect Hugo Poortman. Van Zeggeren started there literally from scratch, as in that construction he helped with the earth moving with wheelbarrows. The villas in the park are in a then modern Neo-Renaissance style. At Honig's office he learned all the tricks of the trade. On March 2, 1903, Hein van Zeggeren came to Ermelo and lived in Hotel Peter of coffee house owner L.J.Roelofsen and would also have lived at Staverden Castle. He was registered as an overseer and according to his family he designed Veldwijk. The latter is not correct but he was probably an overseer in the construction of Veldwijk. On August 14, 1906 he went to Harderwijk Smeepoortstraat 3 and in 1909 to Gorinchem where he became municipal architect. He married in 1912 in Laren (GLD) with the Rotterdam Emma Alida Oostmeijer (born 17/1/1886), the couple had 2 children (Hein and Guusta). In this same year (1912), a series of houses designed by him in collaboration with architect J.A. van Lit was built at Madurastraat 62-70 in Amsterdam. In 1919, Van Zeggeren received an appointment as municipal architect in The Hague. There he worked until 1947 and then as consulting chief architect until 1951. In 1955, he was appointed officer in the House Order of Orange Nassau He was secretary of the BNA for many years and chairman of the Building and Sculpture Department of the Hague Art Society. A number of works are known from his period in The Hague; such as the design of a rotating stage during the renovation of the Royal Theater in 1929, a gatehouse at the Eik and Duin cemetery. When the Germans demanded the demolition of houses in The Hague for construction of the Atlantic Wall, Van Zeggeren was among those who protested. But especially his design for the replacement of the Jacob's Church spire in its original style made the press several times. At the opening on September 14, 1957, the mayor of The Hague gave Van Zeggeren a silver cigarette box with the image of this church.The Jacobskerk is known for the baptism of Crown Princess Catherine Amalia and the wedding of Prince Constantine and Laurentien Brinkhorst. After his retirement, Van Zeggeren returned to Velp where he died on July 13, 1974.