Roubaix - Tourcoing

Roubaix, Tourcoing and the Villa Cavrois — Art Deco in northern France

Around Roubaix and Tourcoing, in the former textile metropolis, the route brings together the Roubaix swimming baths turned museum, the churches of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes and Sainte-Thérèse in Wattrelos, the Arcades and Géo Bontinck's Maison Vandeveegaete in Tourcoing and, in Croix, Robert Mallet-Stevens’s Villa Cavrois, more modernist than Art Deco.

6 stops · Duration full day · Distance 13 km · public transport

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1. Villa Cavrois

   Robert Mallet-Stevens · 1932

   Commissioned by the Roubaix textile industrialist Paul Cavrois from the Franco-Belgian architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, the villa was designed from 1929 and inaugurated in 1932.

2. Église Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes

   René Dupire · 1933

   Built in 1932-1933 by the architect René Dupire on land donated by the industrialist Gaston Motte, near the Barbieux park, the church was blessed by Cardinal Liénart on 24 December 1933.

3. La Piscine (ancienne piscine municipale, musée d'art et d'industrie)

   Albert Baert · 1932

   Roubaix's municipal baths, commissioned in 1923 by mayor Jean Lebas, were built from 1927 to 1932 by the Lille architect Albert Baert.

4. Église Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'Enfant-Jésus (quartier du Laboureur)

   Charles Bourgeois · 1927

   Erected in 1927 by the Tourcoing architect Charles Bourgeois, shortly after the canonisation of Thérèse of Lisieux, it is the first church in the region dedicated to this saint.

5. Les Arcades

   Maurice Batteur & Léonce Claudez · 1932

   Les Arcades is a property development launched in 1930 by the Tourcoing hospices along avenue Gustave-Dron, laid out according to the plan drawn up in 1919 by Jacques Greber between the station and the town centre.

6. Maison Vandeveegaete

   Géo Bontinck · 1927

   This townhouse was built in 1927 by the Belgian architect Géo Bontinck for Charles Vandeveegaete, a textile industrialist.

Translated from the French original.