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House à Neufchâteau dans les Vosges

Vosges

House

    13 Rue de la Comédie
    88300 Neufchâteau
Maison
Maison
Crédit photo : Ji-Elle - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1800
1900
2000
1792
Sale as a national good
1ère moitié du XVIIIe siècle
Construction of house
19 janvier 2000
Protection by decree
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

The façade and the roof on street, the corridor, the staircase, the heating cupboard and the fireplace on the reverse side (Box AH 331): inscription by order of 19 January 2000

Key figures

Famille Sauville - Initial owner Powerful local family in the 18th century.
Nicolas Humblot - Acquerer before 1792 Curé de Saint-Christophe, last pre-revolutionary owner.

Origin and history

This house located in Neufchâteau, in the Great East, dates from the first half of the eighteenth century. It consists of two building bodies and houses an oak heating cupboard, typical of the furniture of the area. This closet, integrated with the back of a fireplace, was used to diffuse heat in a room on the ground floor, illustrating the domestic heating techniques of the time.

The building belonged to the Sauville family, a local influential line, before being acquired by Nicolas Humblot, parish priest of Saint Christophe, shortly before the Revolution. In 1792 the house was sold as a national property, marking its inscription in the turbulent history of this period. Today, its façade, corridor, staircase, as well as the heating closet and fireplace have been protected since a 2000 decree.

The precise location of the house is 13 rue de la Comédie in Neufchâteau, in the department of Vosges. Its architecture and its interior elements preserved make it a rare testimony of the bourgeois dwellings of Lorraine in the Enlightenment century.

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