Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison
La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façade : classement par arrêté du 23 octobre 1923
- Protection dates
- 1923/10/23 : classé MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 5 rue des Merciers
- Commune
- La Rochelle
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.15982, -1.15066
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105002
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 1621 map "Carte du Pais d'Aunis Ville et Gouvernement de la Rochelle." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La gerbe de blé représentée dans l'enseigne parlante, en clef de l'anneau, indiquerait que cette maison a été construite pour un marchand de grains ou de farines. La façade présente, aux allèges de croisées, des personnages.
English translation
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History
The sheaf of wheat represented in the rebus sign, in the key of the ring, would indicate that this house was built for a grain or flour merchant. The façade presents, at the sills of the window openings, figures.
Nearby in the register
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison dite du Maire Jean Guitonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.