Pakhuis, Historic warehouse building in Ghent, Belgium

Pakhuis was a stone building on the Korenmarkt in Ghent, designed by Bernard de Wilde and completed in 1719. Its symmetrical facade had three rows of tall rectangular windows, a projecting balustraded balcony above the ground floor, and three large arched openings at its base. A triangular pediment with a round clock sat at the roofline, and a lion crowned the front. It was demolished in 1897.

The Pakhuis was built in 1719 on the Korenmarkt, on the site of the former city prison, the Chastelet, to plans by architect Bernard de Wilde. It housed the public weigh house, whose street-side scale could weigh loads up to 10 tons, along with the municipal excise offices. From 1729 it sheltered the Chamber of Commerce, later the Royal Academy of Drawing, a commercial court and several schools. It was demolished in 1897 for the main post office; its crowning lion now stands in the Citadel Park.

The building's name refers to its function as a pakhuis, a warehouse where grain was weighed and stored; the public scale at the street side could weigh loads up to 10 tons. A clock on the building marked the start and end of the grain market. The disappeared building is remembered by the Pakhuisstraat, a short street south of the former post office.

The Pakhuis no longer exists: it was demolished in 1897 and replaced by the former main post office on the Korenmarkt. Visitors can still find the building's lion, now in the Citadelpark, and the two vases from its pediment, kept in the Museum voor Stenen Voorwerpen in the former Sint-Baafsabdij. Pakhuisstraat, a short street south of the post office, recalls the name.

The building was demolished in 1897 to make way for Ghent's main post office. The lion that crowned its facade now stands in the Citadelpark, and the two vases from the ends of the pediment are kept in the Museum of Stone Objects in the former Sint-Baafsabdij. South of the post office, Pakhuisstraat recalls the vanished building.