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  6. Hotel Isabey

Hotel Isabey à Besançon dans le Doubs

Hotel Isabey

    21 Rue de la Préfecture
    25000 Besançon
Ownership of a public institution; Department-owned
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Photo de Hotel Isabey
Crédit photo : Wikimniscient - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1800
1900
2000
2100
1774
Approval of the first draft
1775
Construction of hotel
1862
Winter garden development
21 décembre 1984
Historical monument classification
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
milieu XXe siècle
Installation of the Chamber of Trades

Heritage classified

Façades and roofs on street and courtyard, including the porch overlooking the garden; the staircase with its ramp on the garden; the staircase with its wrought iron ramp; the following six rooms on the first floor of the building between street and courtyard with their decoration: the entrance, the president's office, the three offices and the library with its parquet (Box AO 7): inscription by order of 21 December 1984

Key figures

Claude-Antoine Colombot - Architect Designer of the hotel in 1775.
Antoine-Joseph Isabey - Sponsor Lawyer, first owner of the hotel.
Gaspard Renaudin - Drafter Author of the first facade project.
Famille Brétillot - Owners (19th century) Banquiers, house the winter garden.

Origin and history

The Isabey Hotel is a private hotel built in 1775 by the bisontin architect Claude-Antoine Colombot for Antoine-Joseph Isabey, lawyer at the Besançon Parliament. The original project, designed by Gaspard Renaudin under the direction of Colombot, was approved in April 1774 and amended in 1775 at the request of the sponsor. The building, plan in "U", is distinguished by its pilaster-like facade and its concave-faced winter garden, added in 1862 by the then owner Brétillot family.

Ranked a historic monument since 1984, the hotel protects its facades, roofs, wrought iron stairs and six rooms on the first floor with their original décor. After belonging to local bankers in the 19th century, the building has been occupied since the middle of the 20th century by the Doubs Chamber of Crafts and Crafts. Its architecture reflects the elegance of Burgundian private hotels at the end of the Old Regime.

Located at 21 rue de la Préfecture in the Boucle district, the Isabey Hotel illustrates the bisontin urbanism of the 18th century, marked by the piercing of new streets like the present rue de la Préfecture (former rue de la Traverse). Its staircase of honour conceals a secondary staircase, while the communes in return square frame the courtyard and garden, typical of the aristocratic residences of the era.

External links

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