• Year 1906.
  • Visited by Mahler on 10-03-1906.
  • Estate.
  • Area within Oude Valkeveenscheweg, now Meentweg and Drafnalaantje.
  • House sold in 1940 and demolished 1941.
  • Charles Boissevain (1842-1927) lived here from 1896-1927.
  • Charles Ernest Henri Boissevain (1868-1940) lived also on the Oude Valkeveenscheweg, now Meentweg, in House Bergerac.

Large Swiss house with the Norwegian name Drafna. Initially it served from 1860 as a summer residence for a large Dutch industrialists. Later the house was permanently inhabited by individuals. 

House Boissevain Drafna.

House Boissevain Drafna.

House Boissevain Drafna.

House Boissevain Drafna. Entrance.

House Boissevain Drafna.

House Boissevain Drafna.

1930. House Boissevain Drafna.

Map Gooische steamtram (Naarden-Huizen) and House Boissevain Drafna.

25-11-2016. House Boissevain Drafna. Entrance.

25-11-2016. House Boissevain Drafna.

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