Cité Leroy (Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry)

Cité Leroy, Rue Jacques Brel

The Cité Leroy is a workers' settlement in Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry in the Seine-et-Marne department in the French region of Île-de-France , which was built between 1912 and 1920. It includes Rue Jacques Brel, Rue Jean-Pierre Ferrand and Rue Maurice Leroy.

history

In 1912 Maurice-Isidore Leroy (1877–1933) relocated the wallpaper factory founded by his grandfather Louis-Isidore Leroy (1816–1899) in Paris in 1842 on the banks of the Seine in Ponthierry, now a district of Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry. In order to create apartments for his 500 employees, he had 144 identical terraced houses designed by the architect Paul Friesé (1851–1917) in the town of which he was mayor from 1912 to 1929 . The one-story houses are made of brick and quarry stone and have a garden in which the residents could grow vegetables. In another, separately located settlement, 20 houses were provided for foremen. A hospital also belonged to the settlement, today the Center Municipal de Santé .