In 2011, the building at Grote Gracht 86A and 86B was added to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. This building, which is on the list of national monuments, is known as ‘house with moulding façade, XVII, with ridges, mouldings and corner blocks.’ Before it was taken over by the university it served as Centre for Integral Healthcare. Today there are offices and classrooms, but it also houses the ‘Bandito espresso’ bar, which is located adjacent to an attractive inner courtyard with grapes and the pleasant smell of herbs. Not much is known about the long history of this building and its users. The building comprises an obvious front and back part; the staircase in the back part to the side of the espresso bar is late medieval, dating from the fifteenth century. In 1886 permission was given to furnish the building with a new storefront. By the 1970s, it housed the Frederiks hardware store. In fact, there used to be a great many stores on Grote Gracht. At number 88, for instance, there was the well known Schoonbrood hat shop (a narrow building to close off the potentially unsafe Hardemansruwe). Around 1980 its fine wooden front was removed to return the building’s ‘lustre of yesteryear’, as it was put at the time. This restoration underscores how policies on preserving old buildings have changed over time. Today, after all, one will always start from a building’s integral history. A remodelling such as the one in 1980 would now be unthinkable because it results in a falsification or replica front.