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Origin and history

The building at 15 rue des Ursulines in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) is a 17th-century building. This building, whose facades and roofs were inscribed in the Historical Monuments by order of 17 April 1984, illustrates the civil architecture of this period. Its entrance gate, also protected, bears witness to the attention paid to ornamental details in the urban construction of the era.

Saint-Denis, the historic city of the Paris suburbs, was in the seventeenth century a place of passage and of artisanal and religious development. The buildings of this period often reflected the growing prosperity of the bourgeois and merchants, while integrating Baroque or classical stylistic elements. This type of building served both as housing and sometimes as a place of economic activity, thus participating in the daily life of the city.

The protection of its architectural elements underlines its heritage importance in the local urban landscape.

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