Result of rebuilding. The property was built in 1929 as a guest house - the design drawing reads "garden house" - to a 1928 design by architect Cor de Graaff.
The house is a copy of a castle on the Loire River. The poet/writer/artist Gustaaf van de Wall Perné (1877-1911), then living at the adjacent house Hoog Soeren 66, had already bought the lot on which the house was to be built in 1911. However, he died before the deed was executed. The transaction took place anyway, but this time by the widow Eugenie van de Wall Perné-van Vooren. Gustaaf had once sketched the castle on the Loire, and at the time of his death he was working on these sketches and turning them into a painting. He intended to recreate the little castle and made the detailed drawings himself and designed, among other things, the wind vane, which has since disappeared. After his early death, the construction could not be realized immediately for financial reasons. Only after 17 years would Eugenie pick up the thread and take up the construction. Cor de Graaff, born in Makassar in the Dutch East Indies, eventually made the final design drawings. Cor and Eugenie knew each other from the Ned. Indies. Cor worked there from his schooling and, as a young architect of less than 25 years, won first prize for the Dutch pavilion at the World's Fair in Batavia, which, however, did not go ahead due to the outbreak of World War I. In 1926, Cor moved to the Netherlands. The house at Hoog Soeren was his first commission in the Netherlands.
(Source Monumenten.nl)