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House called Villa Marguerite à Nancy en Meurthe-et-Moselle

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine de vilégiature
Villa
Bâtiment Art Nouveau

House called Villa Marguerite

    3 Rue du Colonel-Renard
    54100 Nancy
Private property
Villa Marguerite à Nancy
Maison dite Villa Marguerite
Maison dite Villa Marguerite
Maison dite Villa Marguerite
Crédit photo : Pymouss - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1900
2000
1902-1905
Construction of the villa
4 mai 1994
Registration for Historic Monuments
Début XXe siècle
Disappearance of original elements
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Facades, roofs and fences (Box BN 26): inscription by order of 4 May 1994

Key figures

Aimé Prost - Sponsor Engineer-Administrateur des Salines de Bosserville.
Joseph Hornecker - Senior Architect Master of work, Art Nouveau regionalist style.
Henri Gutton - Architect and engineer Co-conceptor of the villa.
Joseph Janin - Glass painter Author of the original stained glass windows.

Origin and history

Villa Marguerite is an Art Nouveau style house built in the early 20th century in the garden city of Saurupt Park in Nancy. It was built between 1902 and 1905 by architects Henri Gutton and Joseph Hornecker for Aimé Prost, an engineer and administrator of the Bosserville Salines, who was considered the main contractor. The painter-glassman Joseph Janin realized the stained glass windows, while the company Fournier and Défaut executed the big work. The villa, influenced by Hector Guimard and neo-norman regionalism, is distinguished by its picturesque architecture.

Villa Marguerite is located at 3 rue du Colonel-Renard, in a planned urban complex. Its facades, roofs and fences were listed as historical monuments by order of 4 May 1994. Some parts, such as the campanile and the windows of the stairwell, have now disappeared. This monument illustrates the influence of the Nancy School and the rise of Art Nouveau in the region.

The villa is part of a historical context marked by industrialization and architectural innovation. Nancy, then in full expansion, saw the emergence of garden towns like Saurupt, designed to offer a harmonious living environment. The Villa Marguerite, with its artistic details and landscape integration, reflects this desire to reconcile modernity and aesthetics, typical of the period.

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