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Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
Apartment Complex rue La Fontaine
Alternate Title:
Groupe d'immeubles,17-19-21 rue La Fontaine, 43 rue Gros, 8-10 rue Agar
Image View:
General view along the base of rue Gros, from north
Creator:
Hector Guimard (French architect, 1867-1942)
Location:
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note:
17-19-21 rue La Fontaine, 43 rue Gros, 8-10 rue Agar
Date:
1909-1911 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Art Nouveau
Work Type 1:
apartment house
Work Type 2:
housing project
Classification:
architecture
Material:
stone; brick; iron
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Inscription:
Rue Agar elevation, plaque which reads "A LA TRAGEDIENNE AGAR, QUI HABITA AUTEUIL & PASSY DE 1870 A 1880"
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; Housing
Description:
Group of seven investment properties built by a private development company with Hector Guimard as a shareholder. One of the intersecting streets was renamed rue Agar in 1912 in honor of the actress (tragédienne) Marie Léonide Charvin, known as Mme. Agar (died 1891). There is a plaque in her honor on the building.
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Two
Identifier:
1A1-GH-HC-C1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Apartment Complex rue La Fontaine