Hôtel Acloque

English translation

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History

Town house, between courtyard and garden, built between 1878 and 1879 by the Amiens architect Charles Pinsard. In the neo-Louis XIII style, very much in fashion in Amiens residential architecture of the last quarter of the 19th century, the town house presents an elevation consisting of brick panels with corner chainwork, median pilasters and window surrounds in ashlar stone treated with rustication. A glazed gallery links the main house to the street, on the edge of which two pavilions for use as storage buildings flank an ironwork gate. The town house has retained most of its original interior decoration, in particular the stained glass windows: neo-Renaissance stained glass window of the entrance door, signed by the Amiens master glazier Leroy; stained glass windows of the glazed gallery (late 19th-early 20th century) composed of a stylized decoration of water lilies punctuated by cabochons and cives; stained glass windows of the bathroom with floral decoration engraved by sand-blasting. The reception rooms have preserved their neo-Rocaille or neo-Louis XVI decoration; the service rooms have maintained their original authenticity (kitchen, pantry).