Grand Hotel (Houlgate)

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Grand Hotel in Houlgate

The Grand Hôtel in Houlgate , a French commune in the Calvados department in the region Normandy , was opened. 1858 The former Grand Hotel with a view of the sea at No. 2, rue Baumier, was added to the list of architectural monuments in France in 2000 as Monument historique .

The building was built for the banker Albin-Aubin Vergniolle, one of the founders of the seaside resort of Houlgate, based on plans by the architect Jacques-Claude Baumier from Caen . In 1896 two pavilions were added to the rear and in 1904 a rotunda was added to the crossroads.

The neoclassic- style hotel closed in 1947 and condominiums were set up in the building that is now called Résidence les Pléiades a few years later .

literature

  • Didier Hébert: Houlgate. The pearl of the Cote Fleurie. Éditions Lieux Dits and Région Basse-Normandie, 2011, ISBN 978-2-36219-018-6 , pp. 20-21.

Web links

Commons : Grand Hôtel (Houlgate)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Grand Hôtel d'Houlgate in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 16 ″  N , 0 ° 4 ′ 26 ″  W.