A tall, symmetrical town house of 1911 that the Brussels heritage inventory describes as out of scale with the rest of its street: four storeys, five bays and two arched carriage entrances. It is on the region’s legal inventory, and has long been a hotel, today Made in Louise.
At a glance
The rue Veydt, in Ixelles, grew up in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as the district around the avenue Louise was built. Numbers 40-42 came later, in 1911, and the inventory singles the house out as an “imposing volume” that stands apart from the more modest fronts around it. Its style is recorded as eclectic, with neoclassical elements. The architect is not known. The building was already a hotel, the Hôtel Louise, when its present owners bought it in 2011; we have not found when it first became one.
Key facts
- Where: Rue Veydt 40-42, 1050 Ixelles (Brussels)
- Built: 1911, according to the regional inventory, which cites the Ixelles planning archives (ACI/Urb. 305-40-42)
- Architect: not known; the inventory records him as unknown
- Type and style: town house (hôtel particulier), eclectic with neoclassical elements
- Protection: entered on the legal inventory of the architectural heritage of the Brussels-Capital Region on 19 August 2024 (inventory notice 17081)
- Hotel: the former Hôtel Louise, bought in 2011 by its present owners and reopened as Made in Louise, according to the hotel
- Coordinates: 50.829174, 4.357837 · open in Google Maps
History
The rue Veydt follows, roughly, the line of an old country road that ran from the chaussée de Waterloo to a place called the Arbre Bénit, the Blessed Tree, at today’s crossing of the rue Defacqz and the rue Veydt. The tree was an old lime on a rise, recorded from the early thirteenth century, and by an ancient tradition people with fever were laid under its branches after rain in the hope that the dripping water would cure them. When the district around the avenue Louise began to be built up from 1840, the old road was cut into three new streets: the rue Jourdan, the rue de la Source and the rue Veydt. The street takes its name from Maximilien Veydt (1823–1873), a professor at the Free University of Brussels, lawyer and writer, alderman of Ixelles from 1858 to 1860.
According to the inventory, the street was lined with buildings during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and its fronts were still fairly uniform at the beginning of the twentieth. The house at numbers 40-42, dated 1911, is a later and larger arrival, which the inventory describes as standing apart from the rest of the street. We have not found the original permit drawings or the name of the first owner, so we cannot say for whom it was built or how it was used when it was new.
By 2011 the building was a hotel, the Hôtel Louise. That year it was bought by Martin and Mélanie Duchateau, a brother and sister trained at the hotel school of Lausanne, who renovated it with their mother, an interior architect, and reopened it as Made in Louise; the hotel says the work respected the style of the house. The Brussels region entered the building on its legal inventory on 19 August 2024.
What you see
We have not found a free photograph of the front that we could publish, so this description follows the regional heritage inventory. The house rises four storeys on a symmetrical front of five bays. The two outer bays are set slightly back, and each is opened on the ground floor by a tall carriage door under a round arch; the right-hand door keeps its original ironwork. The two lower storeys are covered in render scored with continuous false joints to imitate stone. The base is pierced by cellar openings closed by wrought-iron grilles.
The central windows of the ground and first floors stand on aprons filled with small balusters, and the first-floor windows are crowned by an entablature. The inventory notes that the building, by its size, breaks the scale of the street, which elsewhere has lost much of its original harmony through later alterations.
Practical information
- The building is a hotel, Made in Louise; the interiors are for guests.
- The front can be seen from the rue Veydt at any time; the two carriage doors and the balustered window aprons are the details to look for.
- The inventory entry is a recognition of heritage interest, not a full protection as a listed monument.
Getting there
The rue Veydt lies in Ixelles, on the west side of the avenue Louise, which is a few minutes’ walk to the east and carries several tram lines. The hotel gives Louise metro station as about ten minutes on foot.
Nearby
- Hôtel Otlet, the Octave van Rysselberghe house for Paul Otlet, about 150 metres to the east.
- Hôtel Ciamberlani and Hankar House, the two Paul Hankar houses on the rue Defacqz, about 200 metres to the south.
- The crossing of the rue Defacqz and the rue Veydt, where the Arbre Bénit once stood.
Do you know more?
On this page we have published what the regional inventory records about this house. We have no photograph of its front we are free to publish, and we could not find the name of the architect who designed it in 1911, the family who had it built, or the year it became a hotel. If you know something — a name, a date, the people who lived here, an old photograph, a document, a book that mentions it — or if you can send us a photograph of the front, write to Sofia, who looks after these pages.
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Sources
- Brussels-Capital Region, Inventaire du patrimoine architectural, notice «Rue Veydt 40-42» (Urban 17081): date 1911 (ACI/Urb. 305-40-42), architect unknown, eclectic town house, the description of the front, and the entry on the legal inventory of 19 August 2024.
- Brussels-Capital Region, Inventaire du patrimoine architectural, street notice «Rue Veydt»: the old road to the Arbre Bénit, the division of 1840, Maximilien Veydt, and the building of the street; it cites the Atlas du sous-sol archéologique de la Région de Bruxelles, 15: Ixelles (2005) and R. Dons in Cahiers bruxellois XXVIII (1987).
- Made in Louise, “Notre histoire”, official website: the purchase of the former Hôtel Louise in 2011 and its renovation.
- OpenStreetMap / Nominatim: position, returned as 40, Rue Veydt, Ixelles.
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