Hendrik Beyaert’s National Bank building on Leopoldplaats was inaugurated in 1879 and closed as a bank branch in 2014. Its strongrooms now hold furniture.
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Zurenborg, Antwerp’s art nouveau quarter on sour ground
Most of Zurenborg went up between 1894 and 1906, on a farm named after its acidic soil. A plan to demolish the Cogels-Osylei failed, and in 1980 the street was protected.