Before the building became Paushuize (the Pope’s House), it was a big building, for the first time mentioned in a document, dated 4 October 1360, in which it was passed over to the immunity of the Saint Pieter (N).
An immunity is a well traced area in which canons (kanunniken) live hidden from the view of the local authorities.
From one side it bordered to the immunity of the Dom and on the other part it bordered to the still existing Saint Pieter’s ditch, now the Kromme Nieuwe Gracht.
It knew several owners till 25 April 1517, when the building was sold to Adriaan Florensz Boeijens, the later Dutch Pope. He gave orders to rebuild the building, but has never seen it after that, by his more or less sudden death in Rome (15-09-1523).
Now it is the official building of the government of the Province Utrecht.
In the wall you can see a sculpture of Adrian VI.
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