Zelzate

Zelzate — from Groenstraat to Burgemeester Jos. Chalmetlaan

In Zelzate, this short route brings together eight Art Deco buildings from 1929 to 1939. It starts at two addresses on Groenstraat (1939 and 1933), then reaches Maurice Mornie’s corner house (1933), which the inventory record relates to “romantic cubism” and which now houses the liberal trade union, and two neighbouring houses on Oostkade, dated 1929, one of them by Georges Pauwels. It then passes F. De Boever’s ’t Klokke Huys (1933), on the corner of the church site, and another house by Pauwels (1939), before ending at the house by Gentil Marchand, from Moerbeke (1938), whose letterbox bears the inscription “post” in Art Deco lettering.

8 stops · Duration 2h · Distance 1,5 km

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1. Maisons Art déco, Groenstraat 109-111 — Zelzate

   Inconnu · 1939

   Two Art Deco terraced houses built together in 1939, according to the cadastral archives, with two storeys under a flat roof and a low-pitched saddle roof.

2. Maison Art déco, Groenstraat 86 — Zelzate

   Inconnu · 1933

   Art Deco house of two bays and two storeys under a flat roof, dated 1933 according to the cadastral archives.

3. Maison d'angle Art déco, Burgemeester De Clercqstraat 1 — Zelzate

   Maurice Mornie · 1933

   Former house of M. Govaert-Carton, on the corner of Stationsstraat, built in 1933 by the architect M.

4. Maison Art déco, Oostkade 14 — Zelzate

   Georges Pauwels · 1929

   Fairly well-preserved Art Deco terraced house, built in 1929 according to the building permit to designs by the architect Georges Pauwels.

5. Maison Art déco, Oostkade 13 — Zelzate

   Inconnu · 1929

   Art Deco house built in 1929 according to the land-registry archives, now a shop called 't Naaimandje, with a partly altered shop front.

6. 't Klokke Huys — Zelzate

   F. De Boever · 1933

   An Art Deco house on the corner of the church site, built in 1933 according to the cadastral records and designed, as the inscription on its plinth shows, by "F.

7. Maison Art déco, Pierets-De Colvenaerplein 18 — Zelzate

   Georges Pauwels · 1939

   Art Deco house designed in 1939 by Geo Pauwels, architect in Ghent, according to the plinth inscription and the building permit kept in the Zelzate municipal archives.

8. Maison Art déco, Burgemeester Jos. Chalmetlaan 17 — Zelzate

   Gentil Marchand · 1938

   Terraced house in the Art Deco style of two storeys under a tiled saddle roof, signed on the plinth "Gentil Marchand, Moerbeke" and built in 1938 according to the land-registry archives.

Translated from the French original.