Hotel de Boer

Hotel De Boer
Hotel De Boer in 1936
Hotel De Boer and Medan Post Office
Hotel De Boer in the Center of Medan
Traffic in the street in front of the Hotel de Boer

Hotel Mijn De Boer (more popularly called by Hotel De Boer, now Inna Dharma Deli Hotel) was a Dutch colonial style hotel located on Cremerweg (now Jalan Balai Kota), Medan, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). This Hotel was built in 1898 by Dutch businessman Aeint Herman de Boer.

De Boer was born in Workum, Netherlands and migrated to Dutch East Indies in late nineteenth century. First, he settled in Surabaya and became a part proprietor of a restaurant in Surabaya. In 1809, he migrated to Medan and began his new business. In early 1898, he built Hotel De Boer which just cointaned a restaurant, a bar, and seven rooms. In 1909, de Boer expanded his hotel by adding 40 rooms. In 1930, Hotel De Boer was expanded by adding 120 rooms and a huge hall.

Group portrait at Hotel de Boer Medan

In colonial times, this hotel was once inhabited by guests of honor of the Dutch Empire government like King Léopold II of Belgium and Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (nephew of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands), and also Dutch Frisian famous spy Mata Hari. Sutan Sjahrir, an Indonesian politician had ever been a violinist in this hotel.

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