Farm 't Wilgenhof

Farm located at the back with separate components known as "'T WILGENHOF" see wooden sign associated with the new residence number 108. According to a spokesman, this was the birthplace of Léon Claeys (1879-1966), (see L. Claeysstraat, Ruddervoordsestraat, Sint-Elooistraat). Shown on the Ferraris map (1770-1778) depicted within a fenced plot with two parallel volumes. Similar situation on the primitive cadastral plan (circa 1830), with the residence to the west of the yard and located in the Veldhoek district. The tenant farm was then owned by the Brussels landowner Adolph Goupy. The cadastral records in 1858 register the construction of a bakehouse to the northeast of the yard. The owner is now Baron Bruno Josephus Kervijn-Delettenhove, historian and politician for the Catholic party. The farmhouse and bake oven are expanded around 1881. Before 1932, an extension of the residence follows along with the addition of a new outbuilding to the east of the yard.

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