The street runs along one of two old parallel roads running through the city on either side of the Grote Markt linking Heemstede to Schoten, and is one of the oldest streets in Haarlem.
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The Grote Houtstraat in Haarlem was originally just called the "Houtstraat" (Wood street) as it was the major road leading from the Grote Markt to the woods called the Haarlemmerhout.
George Grote | Grote Street, Adelaide | Grote Street | Grote Markt, Haarlem | Grote Markt | Grote | John Grote | Grote Reber | Grote (disambiguation) | Arthur Grote | Verwey hall from the Grote Houtstraat looking north. The street level is in use by shops and a restaurant, and the upper levels are accessible from the entrance near the Vleeshal. Along the top of the facade are the words "Modern Art" and the more famous names in Haarlem Modern art | Mutinous troops of the Army of Flanders ransack the ''Grote Markt | Grote Hollandse Waard |
Unique 1928 film footage of the funeral procession with a lead carriage followed by ten mourners, followed by a carriage with the coffin, followed in turn by at least four more carriages, passing by a crowd at the Grote Markt, Haarlem from the Zijlstraat to the Smedesstraat, and then back again through the Grote Houtstraat towards the Barteljorisstraat, on the way to the "Algemene Begraafplaats" at the Kleverlaan (northern Haarlem cemetery) has been digitized on Youtube.