This beautiful building is located in Torenstraat number 28 and is also called Villa Pierre. Villa Pierre was built in 1901 by order of the first director of Laura & Vereeniging: Paul Hubert Raymond Pierre.
This mining engineer was born in Maastricht on July 26, 1857. Before his Laura time, he was director at the Ombilin coal mines in Sumatra (present-day Indonesia).
Paul Hubert Raymond Pierre was only willing to become director of Laura & Vereeniging on the condition that he could live in the same way with an equivalent housing as in Sumatra. It had to be a detached house with the character of
a country house with ten to twelve rooms, a central hall, a terrace, electricity and low-pressure steam heating.
It eventually became a colonial style house with early Jugendstil influences. The front facade has rich stucco decorations, including above the door, above the balcony door and in the top facade. These decorations symbolize mining work. Above the main entrance is the text 'Glück Auf'.
The garden was laid out in 1905. After 1925, the villa was converted into the headquarters of Laura & Vereeniging. In 1937 a substantial addition was made to the rear of the original villa, then again in 1969. The villa is currently in use as an apartment complex.
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