Ronse

Ronse — from Oswald Ponettestraat to Blauwesteen

In Ronse, this route brings together twelve buildings from 1921 to 1944. It starts at the “Château de la soie”, a neo-Régence villa by Marcel Tock (1924-1926) whose Art Deco interior has remained intact, a protected monument since 2014, then passes a shop-house by Theofiel Desmet (1929) and a bourgeois house whose façade was renewed in Art Deco in 1921. Next come José Vandenbossche’s 1944 façade on Priestersstraat, the house of the notary Cambier (1928), converted from a brewery, a house by Albert Van Laethem (1936) and, on Ninovestraat, the house Antoine De Gavre designed in 1940 for A. Vanderdonckt next to his weaving mill, Van Laethem’s former butcher’s shop (1936) and the Annicq house (1937), whose staircase is lit by a stained-glass window with stags. The route ends at the Villa Vendôme (1923), in white French stone, a shop-house by Vandenbossche (1937) and Siméon Van Cauwenberghe’s Villa Van Butsele (1940).

12 stops · Duration 3h15 · Distance 3,5 km

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1. Villa « Château de la soie », Oswald Ponettestraat 99 — Ronse

   Marcel Tock · 1926

   This large corner villa, in neo-Régence style with an Art Deco interior, was built for the merchant A.

2. Ancienne maison de commerce Art déco, Oswald Ponettestraat 60 — Ronse

   Theofiel Desmet · 1929

   Former shop building in the Art Deco style, built to a 1929 plan by the architect Th.

3. Maison bourgeoise à façade Art déco, Oswald Ponettestraat 11 — Ronse

   Inconnu · 1921

   Town house of six bays and two storeys under a slate-and-tile mansard roof with dormers and oeils-de-boeuf, with a late-19th-century core and a front façade renewed in the Art Deco style in 1921.

4. Maison à façade Art déco, Priestersstraat 8 — Ronse

   José Vandenbossche · 1944

   Terraced house with a 19th-century core, whose front façade was renewed in the Art Deco style to a plan of 1944; it is signed 'J.

5. Maison du notaire Cambier, Verlorenstraat 16 — Ronse

   Inconnu · 1928

   Art Deco house resulting from the conversion of the former Arsène Cambier brewery, after a plan of 1928, commissioned by the notary L.

6. Maison Art déco, Jean-Baptiste Mouroitplein 4 — Ronse

   Albert Van Laethem · 1936

   Art Deco house built to a 1936 plan by the architect A.

7. Maison Art déco Vanderdonckt, Ninovestraat 30C — Ronse

   Antoine De Gavre · 1940

   Art Deco house over a cellar, of three storeys under a flat roof, designed in 1940 by the architect A.

8. Ancienne boucherie Art déco — Ronse

   Albert Van Laethem · 1936

   Art Deco corner building in yellow brick, built to a 1936 plan by the architect Albert Van Laethem, on the corner of the Gebroeders Dopchiestraat, laid out the same year, and the Ninovestraat (no.

9. Maison Annicq — Ronse

   J. De Bouver · 1937

   An Art Deco corner house with a basement, built for N.

10. Villa Vendôme — Ronse

    Richard Cordier & A. Van Kerckhoven & Leo De Wilde · 1923

    The former home of the industrialist P. Vandenhende, built to a 1923 plan by the architect R.

11. Maison de commerce Art déco, Elzeelsesteenweg 35 — Ronse

    José Vandenbossche · 1937

    Shop building over a cellar whose rendered, white-painted façade in the Art Deco style was designed by the architect J.

12. Villa Art déco Van Butsele, Blauwesteen 54 — Ronse

    Siméon Van Cauwenberghe (villa) et Theofiel Desmet (clôture) · 1940

    Villa of the Van Butsele family, opposite the weaving mill, built in the Art Deco style to a 1940 design by S.

Translated from the French original.