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Hotel de Vazelhes is a private hotel located in Montbrison, in the Loire department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Built between the last quarter of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, it illustrates the bourgeois civil architecture of this pivotal period between the Ancient Regime and the modern era. Its facades, roofs, as well as some interior elements such as the stone staircase and the decorations of remarkable rooms, testify to a craftsmanship and a style characteristic of the era.

Ranked Historic Monument by order of 17 May 1982, the hotel specifically protects its facades on street and garden, its entrance hall, its stone staircase with wrought iron ramp, as well as several rooms and their decorations (antechamber, living room, dining room, bedroom). These protections highlight the heritage value of the building, both for its exterior architecture and its interior design, reflecting the way of life of the local elites of the time.

The location of the Hotel de Vazelhes, at 1 rue du Palais-de-Justice in Montbrison, places the building in an urban context marked by the judicial and administrative history of the city. Although the information on its current use (visits, rental, accommodation) is not specified in the available sources, its status as a Historic Monument makes it a key element of the Montbrison heritage, representative of the private hotels of the provincial bourgeoisie of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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