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The house, on an irregular site at the tip of the Île Saint-Louis in the heart of Paris, was designed by architect Louis Le Vau. [1] It was built between 1640 and 1644, originally for the financier Jean-Baptiste Lambert (d. 1644) and continued by his younger brother Nicolas Lambert, later president of the Chambre des Comptes .
The Hôtel de Lauzun (French pronunciation: [otɛl də lozœ̃]) is a 17th-century hôtel particulier, or private mansion, located on the Quai d'Anjou of the île Saint-Louis in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is among the few Parisian hôtels that retain their rich carved, painted, mirrored and gilded interiors from the time of ...
The section between the now extinct Rue du Rempart and the Rue Royale was known successively as the Chemin de Clichy (1204), Grand chemin Saint-Honoré (1283), Chaussée Saint-Honoré (1370), Grand chemin de la Porte Saint-Honoré (1392), Chemin Royal (1393), Nouvelle rue Saint-Louis (1407), Grand rue Saint-Louis (1421), Rue Neuve-Saint-Louis ...
The Marais was then an especially fashionable area for the high nobility ; the construction of the Hôtel de Sully fits in a larger movement of monumental building in this part of Paris. [ 3 ] Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully , and former Superintendent of Finances to King Henri IV , purchased the hôtel , completed and fully furnished, on ...
Hôpital Saint-Louis (French pronunciation: [opital sɛ̃ lwi]) is a hospital in Paris, France. It was built in 1611 by architect Claude Vellefaux at the request of Henry IV of France. It is part of the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris hospital system, and it is located at 1 avenue Claude-Vellefaux, in the 10th arrondissement near the ...
The Rue Saint-Lazare (French pronunciation: [ʁy sɛ̃ lazaʁ]) is a street in the 8th and 9th arrondissements of Paris, France. It starts at 9 Rue Bourdaloue and 1 Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and ends at the Place Gabriel-Péri and the Rue de Rome.
The Royal Sonesta Chase Park Plaza St. Louis is a historic hotel and apartment complex located at 212 N. Kingshighway Boulevard in the Central West End of St. Louis, Missouri. It consists of two buildings - the Chase Hotel, built in 1922 by developer Chase Ullman, [ 1 ] and the Art Deco -style Park Plaza tower, built in 1929 and today housing ...
The Hotel Saint Louis is a hotel and historic building in St. Louis, Missouri. The building was designed by the firm Adler & Sullivan and was constructed from 1892 to 1893. The structure is listed as the Union Trust Company Building on the National Register of Historic Places [ 1 ] and became a City Landmark in 1971.