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Depicted is 'The Palace' (please notice the quotation marks), situated in Den Helder.
The main naval base of The Netherlands was created in the nineteenth century in Den Helder. In the most northern part of the Dutch province of North Holland, a simple keel place for naval ships was built around 1800. In the following decades, a navy establishment with docks and various warehouses and workshops arose there.
The site management received ample accommodation at the establishment: a management house was built in the period 1824-1826. This building soon acquired the nickname 'The Palace'. During the nineteenth century, the initial shipyard grew into a large naval complex with a hospital, naval barracks and midshipmen training institute, in which 'The Palace' became the administrative center.
After the Second World War, the Den Helder naval establishment definitively became the home base of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The former management house, aka 'The Palace' became the residence of the Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Nowadays it isn't used for this purpose anymore.