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This Parisian building from the 2nd quarter of the 19th century, built in 1828, illustrates the rental architecture of the period. Designed to house shops on the ground floor and apartments on the floors, it is distinguished by its stone facades with rigorous scheduling, reflecting a desire for monumentality. The regularity of its elevation is part of the urban ensembles of this period, where the harmony of volumes met the aesthetic and practical requirements of the expanding cities.

The particularity of this building lies in its circular courtyard, designed to illuminate and ventilate the apartments. This arrangement, coupled with an ovoid staircase cage illuminated by a lantern, evokes a neoclassical model more elaborate than ordinary constructions. The vestibule and the ground floor are marked by the quality of their mouldings, while the ramp of the staircase shows a careful attention to detail, characteristic of the bourgeois buildings of the time.

Ranked a Historic Monument, the building saw its remarkable elements protected by arrest in 2011: facades, roofs, entrance hall, courtyard floor, and stairwell with its ramp. These protections highlight the heritage value of a building representative of Parisian urban planning in the early 19th century, where functionality and aesthetics combined to meet the needs of a population undergoing social and economic change.

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