Farm the Bird Phoenix
The current farm on Purmerdijk 8 was built in 1998 on the site where the farm of the picture stood. This previous farm was called De Vogel Phoenix.
Which in turn was built on the site of one of the Purmer's oldest country houses: Kalverlaan. Kalverlaan's first owner was the Italian-born merchant Gonsalvo Romiti. Kalverlaan was probably burnt in 1799 along with seventeen other farmhouses to make way for a so-called battery (bed for setting up a number of pieces of artillery), constructed because of the invasion of the British and Russians in that year. In the photo from around 1905, the Nobel family poses in front of their farm. Next to and behind the current farm is the Fenix Garden Association complex, the area enclosed by the Fenixlaantje.