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The Hôtel de la Marine, originally called Hôtel Massion, is a neo-classical and "neo-Louis-XV" style private mansion built in 1874, located at 2 Place Général-Mellinet between the boulevard Paul-Langevin and rue de Belleville, in the Dervallières (which is in the Zola district of Nantes, France). The building was listed as a historical monument in 1988 and 2011.

History

The building was built in 1874.

The residence has 871 m² of surface area. It is the last of the eight residences built on the square, and like the other seven it respects the design imposed by the architects Étienne Blon and Louis Amouroux in 1828. The successive owners were Gustave Massion (who gave the building its original name and who was a raffineur), the Loynes sisters, and Georges Hailaust (who was a wood merchant and settled in 1919).

The residence has a garden of 4407 m². It contains a rose garden and exotic trees (Himalayan and Atlas cedars, Virginia tulip trees, redwood, Magnolias) planted between 1874 and 1890.

At the end of the 20th century, this hotel housed the Regional Directorate of Taxes.

The facade of the Hôtel de la Marine is listed as a historic monument by decree of October 24, 1988, the garden, a staircase and the lounges by decree of August 29, 2011.

The Akeneo company has occupied the Hôtel de la Marine since April 2016.

Architecture

The hotel is built in granite and freestone.

On the square side, the facade respects the standard established in 1828 by the architects Étienne Blon and Louis Amouroux. Eugène Démangeat, the architect of the Hôtel de la Marine, created a ground floor with shear walls, due to uneven ground. The facade of the floor has five windows with, on each side, twin pilasters. The top of the facade ends with an entablature of triglyphs and metopes. The roof is made of slate.

On the garden side, the architect, freed from the constraint governing buildings overlooking the square, designed a facade in a “neo-Louis XV” style. The first floor has a long balcony with iron railings. The windows are embellished with mascarons.