Roubaix - Tourcoing

Roubaix, Wattrelos and Tourcoing — Art Deco in northern France

Around Roubaix and Tourcoing, the route brings together three buildings from 1927 to 1935: the house that the Roubaix architect Pierre Neveux built for his professional and private use, combining modernity and Art Deco, Charles Bourgeois’s Sainte-Thérèse church in Wattrelos, whose decoration develops the theme of the rose, and Géo Bontinck’s Maison Vandeveegaete in Tourcoing, built for a spinner.

3 stops · Duration 2h45 · Distance 9,5 km

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1. Maison de Pierre Neveux

   Pierre Neveux · 1935

   The Roubaix architect Pierre Neveux built this house in 1935 for his own professional and private use.

2. 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.

3. Maison Vandeveegaete

   Géo Bontinck & Geo Verbanck (sculpteur) · 1927

   This townhouse was built in 1927 by the Belgian architect Géo Bontinck for Charles Vandeveegaete, a spinning-mill owner.

Translated from the French original.