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Origin and history

The house at 12 Church Street in Gray is a civilian building built in the late 16th century. This building, typical of the residential architecture of the late Renaissance, showed local know-how before its partial destruction during a bombing in 1940. After this event, only the ground floor and a wall section of the first floor remained, although the house was already listed in the Historical Monuments before the damage.

The reconstruction of the house was entrusted to Marcel Texier, chief architect of the Historical Monuments, who restored the facade prior to the same. This restoration work resulted in its final classification as a historical monument by decree of 22 December 1941. The protected elements specifically include facades and roofs in their ancient arrangements, thus preserving an architectural heritage marked by history.

The location of this monument, in the town center of Gray in Haute-Saône, reflects the historical importance of this town in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region. Although the available GPS coordinates indicate average accuracy (level 6/10), the official address recorded in the Merimée base confirms its anchoring in the local urban fabric. Today, its status as a listed monument makes it a privileged witness to post-Second World War reconstruction techniques applied to built heritage.

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