Domaine de la Donneterie et Ferme industrielle de Platé (également sur commune de Neuvy-le-Roi)

English translation

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History

Around 1875, the industrialist Armand Moisant acquires the domain of la Donneterie (old 17th century manor, converted into outbuildings by architect Guérin). The neo-Renaissance château was built by architect Boileau in a large park laid out in the English style. Inside, the rooms are decorated with an interior scheme where Henri II style predominates. This decoration was entrusted to artists from Tours. The walls are covered with stencilled decoration and adorned with period hangings. The park, redesigned around 1880, comprises several garden buildings, arbours, an orangery, a grotto, water features and greenhouses which have retained their heating and irrigation systems. The old castle from the late 16th century consists of a rectangular courtyard enclosed by moats and flanked by towers, of which the curtain walls have disappeared. The south tower was converted into a chapel in 1610. The industrial farm was built in the years 1875-1880, with the intention of applying rational methods capable of improving agricultural practices. The farm is managed as an industry, with agricultural workers, farm foremen, a manager. Workers bringing the principles home with them, the farm becomes a model farm. The construction presents a metal load-bearing structure, with whitewashed brick walls and concrete vaults.