Mouscron
Mouscron — from Rue Louis Desprets to Chaussée d’Aelbeke
This route brings together twelve buildings in Mouscron built between 1932 and 1948, ranging from Art Deco to modernism tinged with Art Deco. On Rue Louis Desprets, Rue du Midi and Rue Aloïs Den Reep, it starts with houses from 1934 to 1937, among them the semi-detached pair on Rue Louis Desprets and the house at no. 27 Rue du Midi, by the architect J. Werbrouck. It then reaches Marcel Hocepied’s Cercle ouvrier Saint-Joseph (1932), which housed the Christian trade union, a cooperative shop and a café, then a house on Rue du Dragon (1935), part of a group of houses lining the municipal park, where the bandstand of 1937-1938, listed in 2026, stands by the pond. Next come the former Reine Astrid dispensary (1938), the corner building on Rue de la Marlière (1939), with its glass-brick stairwell, the complex of swimming pool, gymnastics school and fire station attributed to Jules Geldhof, whose pool opened in 1948, and Maurice Dujardin’s Bon-Pasteur church (1939-1940). It ends on Chaussée d’Aelbeke, at a 1938 house decorated with coloured ceramic tiles.
12 stops · Duration 3h45 · Distance 6,5 km
Maisons jumelles, rue Louis Desprets 24-26 — Mouscron
Examples of interwar architecture oscillating between modernism and Art Deco, these two twin semi-detached houses were built in 1937 to plans by the architect J.
Habitation, rue du Midi 21 — Mouscron
Built in 1937, this house is presented by the inventory as representative of interwar architecture.
Habitation, rue du Midi 27 — Mouscron
Set in the bend of the street, this house was built in 1934 to plans by the architect J.
Habitation, rue Aloïs Den Reep 55 — Mouscron
Built in 1937, this house belongs to the interwar architectural current oscillating between Art Deco and Belgian modernism.
Cercle ouvrier Saint-Joseph (Werkers Kring)
A building that the Cercle ouvrier Saint-Joseph decided in 1929 to construct to house the activities of the Christian trade union; designed by the architect Marcel Hocepied, it was erected in 1932.
Maison, rue du Dragon 42 — Mouscron
House built in 1935 to designs by the architect Florence (first initial uncertain, J.
Kiosque à musique du parc communal — Mouscron
Built in 1937-1938 under the mayoralty of Joseph Vandevelde, on the edge of the pond in the municipal park, this bandstand was designed in the Art Deco style, which the inventory notes is rare for this type of structure.
Ancien dispensaire Reine Astrid — Mouscron
The former Queen Astrid dispensary was erected in 1938 by the Œuvre nationale belge de défense contre la tuberculose (Belgian national association for the fight against tuberculosi
Immeuble à appartements et bureaux, rue de la Marlière 2-4 — Mouscron
Apartment and office building erected in 1939 on the corner of the Chaussée du Risquons-Tout, in an interwar idiom wavering between Art Deco, the ocean-liner style and Modernism.
Piscine, école de gymnastique et caserne de pompiers de Mouscron
A complex decided on in 1936 under the mayoralty of Joseph Vandevelde, attributed to the municipal architect Jules Geldhof, combining a swimming pool, gymnastics school, fire station, baths and caretaker's lodge.
Église du Bon-Pasteur
The parish church of the Nouveau-Monde district, built in yellow Nieuwpoort bricks in 1939-1940 to plans by the architect Maurice Dujardin.
Habitation, chaussée d'Aelbeke 255 — Mouscron
Built in 1938, this house is presented by the inventory record as representative of interwar architecture and of a Belgian modernism with a touch of Art Deco.
Translated from the French original.