A town property that reaches from the rue Bosquet to the rue Dejoncker, close to the corner where the two streets meet: at the front, a Beaux-Arts house designed in 1923 by the architect Georges Collin; at the back, a second building on the rue Dejoncker, which since 2009 has been the Vintage Hotel. The Brussels region entered the property on its legal heritage inventory, under both addresses, in August 2024.
At a glance
The regional heritage inventory describes the house on the rue Bosquet in detail and, for the rear building of what it calls the “former property”, refers to the rue Dejoncker 45. That rear building is the one this page is really about, and it is the one we know least about: the inventory does not describe it, and we have not found its date, its architect or its first use. What we can say is that it belonged to the same property as Collin’s house, that it was a retirement home before 2009, and that it was then converted into a hotel. This page sets out those points and what is known of the house in front.
Key facts
- Where: Rue Dejoncker 45 (rear building) and Rue Bosquet 23 (front house), 1060 Saint-Gilles (Brussels)
- Front house: Beaux-Arts, by the architect Georges Collin, 1923, according to the regional inventory, which cites the Saint-Gilles planning archives (ACSG/Urb. 3880)
- Rear building: part of the same former property; not described by the inventory; date and architect not known to us. The hotel describes it as an early twentieth-century building
- Protection: entered on the legal inventory of the architectural heritage of the Brussels-Capital Region on 19 August 2024, under both addresses (inventory notice 1481)
- Before the hotel: a retirement home, according to the Michelin Guide
- Hotel since: 2009, converted by Fabian and Isabelle Henrion; today the Vintage Hotel
- Coordinates: 50.833506, 4.355533 (Rue Dejoncker 45) · open in Google Maps
History
The property lies near the corner of the rue Bosquet and the rue Dejoncker, in the part of Saint-Gilles that borders the avenue Louise: the house faces the rue Bosquet, and its former rear building opens onto the rue Dejoncker. Along the rue Dejoncker the regional inventory records houses from several decades: a pair of identical neoclassical houses of 1887 at numbers 41 and 43, by the architects Louis and Arthur De Rijcker, and at numbers 47-51, on the corner with the rue Bosquet, a modernist block of flats of 1929 by Fernand Petit. That block replaced the Maison de la Femme belge, a home for young women founded by the Secretariat of Christian Women’s Social Works of Belgium and designed in 1881 by Wynand Janssens.
In 1923 the architect Georges Collin designed the house at rue Bosquet 23, in the Beaux-Arts manner that dominated Brussels town houses between about 1905 and 1930. The inventory treats it as a maison bourgeoise, a middle-class family house, and adds a single cross-reference: “for the rear building of the former property, see rue De Joncker 45”. The words “former property” say that house and rear building were once one estate, and have since been separated; they do not say when the rear building was put up, or what it was built for.
According to the Michelin Guide, the rear building was a retirement home when Fabian and Isabelle Henrion converted it into a hotel in 2009. The hotel itself says it is housed in an early twentieth-century building and has been open since 2009. On 19 August 2024 the Brussels-Capital Region entered the property on its legal inventory, listing both the rue Bosquet and the rue Dejoncker addresses.
What you see
We have not found a free photograph of either building that we could publish, and the inventory does not describe the rear building, so we cannot yet say what its front on the rue Dejoncker looks like. For the house in front, on the rue Bosquet, the inventory records a symmetrical front in imitation stone. On the ground floor the openings have shallow arches marked by a keystone, and are separated by piers dressed with flat panels of rustication. The upper windows are rectangular; on the first floor a small balcony with a cast-iron railing sits on the central axis. The slate mansard is lit by three dormers with shaped cornices. The window frames keep their small glazing bars and the ironwork is original.
Practical information
- The rear building on the rue Dejoncker is the Vintage Hotel; the interiors are for guests.
- The house at rue Bosquet 23 is a separate private property and is not open to visitors; its front can be seen from the street.
- The inventory entry is a recognition of heritage interest, not a full protection as a listed monument.
Getting there
The rue Dejoncker lies in Saint-Gilles, a short walk west of the avenue Louise. Louise metro station (lines 2 and 6) and the trams of the avenue Louise are within about ten minutes on foot.
Nearby
- The houses of 1887 by Louis and Arthur De Rijcker at rue Dejoncker 41-43, and Fernand Petit’s block of flats of 1929 at numbers 47-51, next door on either side.
- Hotel Wiltcher’s, the Beaux-Arts hotel of 1913 on the avenue Louise, about 200 metres to the south-east.
- Zoom Hotel, Émile Janlet’s neoclassical corner house on the rue de la Concorde, about 300 metres to the south-east.
- Hôtel Le Berger, an Art Deco hotel of 1933 on the other side of the avenue Louise, about 500 metres to the east.
Do you know more?
On this page we have published what we could verify about this property. The building on the rue Dejoncker is the part we know least: we could not find when it was built, who designed it, what it was built for, or when it became a retirement home, and we have no photograph of it we are free to publish. If you know something — a date, a name, the people or the institution that used it, an old photograph, a planning document, a book that mentions it — or if you can send us a photograph of its front, write to Sofia, who looks after these pages.
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Sources
- Brussels-Capital Region, Inventaire du patrimoine architectural, notice «Rue Bosquet 23 – Rue Dejoncker 45» (Urban 1481): Beaux-Arts house by Georges Collin, 1923 (ACSG/Urb. 3880), its front, the cross-reference to the rear building of the former property at rue Dejoncker 45, and the entry on the legal inventory of 19 August 2024.
- Inventory notice «Rue Dejoncker 41, 43» (Urban 2390) and notice «Rue Bosquet 17-19 – Rue Dejoncker 47-49-51» (Urban 1476): the neighbouring buildings and the former Maison de la Femme belge.
- Michelin Guide, “Vintage Hôtel Brussels”: “a former retirement home converted by the Henrions in 2009”.
- Vintage Hotel, official website: the hotel’s description of an early twentieth-century building, open since 2009.
- OpenStreetMap / Nominatim: position, returned as 45, Rue Dejoncker, Saint-Gilles.
- The date and first use of the rear building rest on no source we have been able to read; the retirement home rests on a single secondary source.
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