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The Hotel in Rouen is a monument dated the 4th quarter of the 18th century. It is distinguished by its street façade, roof and entrance hall, protected by a registration order in 1955. This building illustrates the civil architecture of the end of the Enlightenment century in a city that was then in full economic and cultural expansion, marked by its role as regional capital in Haute-Normandie (now Normandy).

The location of the Hotel, at 26 rue de Crosne, in the centre of Rouen, reflects the urban planning of the time, where private hotels often concentrated near major axes. These buildings served as residences for local elites — bourgeois, merchant or noble — and symbolized their social status. In Rouen, a dynamic port city, these buildings also demonstrate cultural and economic exchanges with other French and European regions.

The partial protection of the monument in 1955 underscores its heritage importance, although the available sources do not specify its original use or its potential historic owners.

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