Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Hôtel de Crillon

Preferred Title:	Hôtel de Crillon
Alternate Title:	Hôtel de Crillon and Hôtel de la Marine
Image View:	Distant view, from over the entrance to the Jardin des Tuileries, looking northwest, showing Hôtel de la Marine (right) and Hôtel de Crillon (left)
Creator:	Ange-Jacques Gabriel (French architect, 1698-1782); Louis François Trouard (French architect, 1729-1797)
Location:	site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note:	No. 10, on the north end of Place de la Concorde
GPS:	+48.867222+2.321389
Date:	1758-1775 (creation)
Cultural Context:	French
Style Period:	Eighteenth century; Neoclassical
Work Type 1:	hotel (public accommodation)
Work Type 2:	hôtel (town house)
Work Type 3:	ministry (government office building)
Classification:	architecture
Material:	stone
Technique:	construction (assembling)
Subjects:	architecture; Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774; luxury hotel; navy headquarters
Description:	The former town house is now an actual hotel, with 103 guest rooms and 44 suites. It occupies one of two identical stone buildings (the other, the Hôtel de la Marine), divided by the rue Royale, that were constructed in 1758 under the auspices of architect Louis François Trouard as a result of a commission from King Louis XV. Initially, both structures were built to serve as government offices and the eastern one continues to this day as Headquarters of the Royale, the French Navy. The facade is by Ange-Jacques Gabriel. In 1788, François-Félix-Dorothee Berton des Balbes, the Count of Crillon, acquired the hotel, only to have it confiscated shortly thereafter by the government of the French Revolution. It was eventually returned to the Count of Crillon's family who ran it until 1907 at which time it underwent a two-year-long refurbishing. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:	Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier:	1A2-F-P-HCR-A1
Rights:	© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.