Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison du Croissant
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La façade Est et la toiture (cad. DZ 335) : inscription par arrêté du 27 juin 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/06/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 11 rue de Constantine
- Commune
- Tours
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.39569, 0.68378
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098222
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
En 1470, des ouvriers en soie appelés par Louis XI, s'établirent dans cette maison. Le bâtiment composé d'un étage en bois et hourdis. L'étage est en encorbellement. La façade nord, endommagée pendant la Seconde guerre mondiale, a été restaurée et est en partie moderne.
English translation
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History
In 1470, silk workers called by Louis XI established themselves in this house. The building composed of one storey in timber and wattle and daub. The storey is corbelled out. The north facade, damaged during the Second World War, has been restored and is partly modern.
Nearby in the register
- Hôtelhôtelunder 1 mi
- Maison ou Hôtel Binetmaisonunder 1 mi
- Hôtel Robin Quantinhôtelunder 1 mi
- Hôtel Gouin, dit aussi hôtel Barguinhôtelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.