Roeselare

Roeselare — from Stationsdreef to Wilgenstraat

In Roeselare, this route brings together twelve Art Deco buildings from 1921 to 1939. It starts at two houses on Stationsdreef, by Gaston Boghemans, from Menen (1930), and by Jules Van Peteghem (1933), then reaches Stationsplein, where Ernest Apers signed a shop-house and the neighbouring tavern in 1921. Apers, who recurs throughout the route, also designed the garage on Sint-Amandsstraat (1938), whose fanlights once read “Pontiac” and “Service”, a 1929 remodelling on Hugo Verrieststraat, with a sailing-ship relief, and a 1924 house on Henri Horriestraat. Along the way: two houses of 1933 and 1934 from unsigned permit applications, Van Peteghem’s In Sint-Michiel shop (1932), with a shopfront in gold and blue mosaic tesserae and sculptures by A.G. Dujardin, and F. Vanhee’s tavern and shop on Meensesteenweg (1933). The route ends on Wilgenstraat, with a house by Apers (1939) and Vanhee’s corner building (1935).

12 stops · Duration 3h15 · Distance 4 km

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1. Maison Art déco, Stationsdreef 181 — Roulers

   Gaston Boghemans · 1930

   Single-fronted house, an example of geometric Art Deco according to the inventory, of two bays and two storeys under a tiled gabled roof, designed in 1930 by Gaston Boghemans (Menen).

2. Maison Art déco, Stationsdreef 151

   Jules Van Peteghem · 1933

   Geometric Art Deco house designed in 1933 by Jules Van Peteghem, with one door bay and one window bay.

3. Maison de commerce et estaminet Art déco, Stationsplein 21-22 — Roulers

   Ernest Apers · 1921

   Shop building signed 'Ernest.Apers.Architekt.', designed in 1921 by Ernest Apers, and the neighbouring tavern (number 22) by the same architect and of the same year, built in a sim

4. Garage Art déco, Sint-Amandsstraat 108 — Roulers

   Ernest Apers · 1938

   Art Deco terraced building designed in 1938 by Ernest Apers (Roeselare) as a garage with workshop and showroom, of three bays and two storeys under a flat roof.

5. Maison Art déco, Hugo Verrieststraat 39 — Roulers

   Ernest Apers · 1929

   Art Deco house of two bays and two storeys, resulting from an alteration designed in 1929 by the architect Ernest Apers (Roeselare) and executed with changes.

6. Maison Art déco, Kokelaarstraat 15 — Roulers

   Inconnu · 1933

   Art Deco house of 1933, built with changes to an unsigned permit application: two bays and two storeys, the right-hand bay raised higher, under a mansard roof with a rectangular do

7. Maison Art déco, Henri Horriestraat 10 — Roulers

   Ernest Apers · 1924

   A single-family house of 1924 designed by the Roeselare architect Ernest Apers, as an inscription also records.

8. Maison Art déco, Leenstraat 15 — Roulers

   Inconnu · 1934

   House of 1934 in a geometric Art Deco, from an unsigned permit application: two bays and three storeys under a flat roof, in brick now painted white on a natural-stone plinth.

9. Magasin In Sint-Michiel — Roulers

   Jules Van Peteghem, A.G. Dujardin (sculpteur) · 1932

   Shop-house, formerly 'In Sint-Michiel', of 1932, designed by Jules Van Peteghem (Roeselare), with sculpture by A.G.

10. Estaminet et maison de commerce, Meensesteenweg 59-61 — Roulers

    F. Vanhee · 1933

    Pair of houses with a shop on the left and a tavern on the right, designed in 1933 by F.

11. Maison Art déco, Wilgenstraat 72

    Ernest Apers · 1939

    Art Deco house with one door bay and one window bay, three storeys under a flat roof, built in 1939 to a design by the architect Ernest Apers (Roeselare), as recorded on a façade tile.

12. Immeuble d'angle Art déco, Wilgenstraat 132-140 — Roulers

    F. Vanhee · 1935

    Geometric Art Deco corner building combining two houses and a shop, of three storeys under a flat roof, designed in 1935 by F.

Translated from the French original.