The architect Hijman Louis de Jong started as a carpenter's apprentice. He worked as a draughtsman for the architect P.H. Berlage. He also helped design the Tuschinski cinema.
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Hijman Louis de Jong, the son of Louis de Jong, a furniture-maker, and Betje van der Stam, worked as a site foreman, draughtsman, and later an architect in Amsterdam. In 1931 he divorced the wife he had married in 1907.
Hijman Louis de Jong designed numerous houses, including De Lairessestraat 104-128 and 142-172, Hacquartstraat 15-17 and houses on Willem de Zwijgerlaan, Reinier Claeszenstraat and Jan van Galenstraat. His best-known design is that for the Tuschinski Theatre on Reguliersbreestraat, dating from 1921.
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The following articles about De Jong have appeared: F.F. Fraenkel, 'The Tuschinski Theatre' in Architectural Review, 1973 no. 915;
F.F. Fraenkel, 'More by De Jong' in Architectural Review, 1973 no. 916.