Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Laplagne
Montesquiou, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le château en totalité, avec les façades et les toitures de ses dépendances (cad. F 108, 112) : inscription par arrêté du 23 novembre 2005
- Protection dates
- 2005/11/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 19e siècle
- Architect or builder
- Lacave-Laplagne-Barris Jean-Paul de (architecte), Lacave-Laplagne-Barris Raymond de (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Montesquiou
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.56585, 0.31053
- Mérimée reference
- PA32000018
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1770 map "74 Auch." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Domaine ayant connu plusieurs phases d'agrandissement au 18e et 19e siècle, donnant à l'édifice un aspect éclectique intéressant. L'agencement des volumes témoigne des hésitations quant au parti à adopter. Les éléments les plus remarques du château sont ses deux bibliothèques et la chapelle.
English translation
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History
Estate having undergone several phases of enlargement in the 18th and 19th centuries, giving the building an interesting eclectic appearance. The arrangement of volumes testifies to hesitation as to which course to adopt. The most remarkable elements of the château are its two libraries and the chapel.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.