Marcel Chabot

Marcel Chabot, born in Liège in 1886 and died in Uccle on 12 September 1968, was an architect active in Brussels between the wars, where he built several Art Deco buildings. In 1924-1925 he designed the Ermitage-hôtel on Boulevard d'Ypres. In 1931-1932 he built the Eldorado cinema on Place De Brouckère, with the engineer Léon-Marcel Chapeaux and the decorator L. Rodriguez; the 3,000-seat auditorium opened in 1933. In 1932 he built the Nord Hôtel, now the New Hôtel Siru, in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, for the Société immobilière rurale. In Liège, a house on Place du Congrès was built to his plans in 1933. He was a Knight of the Order of Leopold, an Officer of the Order of the Crown with golden palms and an Officer of the Order of Leopold II.

Translated from the French original.