This women's fitness
centre on Overtoom started life 90 years ago
as stable/garage for the Amsterdam
police. The website for the National
Office of Cultural Heritage in Holland says
that only the facade of the original
building survives today (what follows are
excerpts from their description translated
clumsily into English).
"In
the middle of the front .... located
between the garage doors on the left and
the main entrance on the right side ....
(is) the lodge ... for the sergeant.
Behind them were the rooms for cleaning
and stabling of horses, as well as for
cleaning and storage of bicycles."
The building is,
"Largely built in
masonry with four floors: ground floor,
two floors and an almost blind top
floor."
Below is an image taken of the
building in 1981. It is shown here
under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Share
Alike 3.0 Netherlands license.
If you click on the image you can see
details of that license.