The Hôtel Brion, also known as Villa Brion, is a small

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hôtel particulier () is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a Townhouse (Great Britain), British townhouse. Whereas an ordinary (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a ...

on rue Sleidan in the Neustadt district of

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, in the French department of the

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. It has been classified as a

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since 1975.

History

The hôtel particulier was built by the architect, Auguste Brion (1861–1940), for himself in 1904. Brion, the scion of a family of artists directly related to the legendary

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, was a prolific architect who built four other houses in the same street between 1903 and 1905. The hôtel is executed in a more exuberant style than most of Brion's other realizations. For the structure, the architect used

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and walls of

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the surface of which he then covered with

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. Between 1926 and 1972, the Hôtel Brion was used as an actual hotel, called Hôtel Marguerite. It is again in private hands since 1980.

Gallery

Strasbourg Hôtel Brion, balcon.jpg,

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window and signature of the architect

References

External links

*
''Villa Brion – 22 rue Sleidan''
on archi-wiki.org

Literature

*Recht, Roland; Foessel, Georges; Klein, Jean-Pierre: ''Connaître Strasbourg'', 1988, , page 272

History

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