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The Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 and the Jubilee Bridge before the First World War. <\/p>\n
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Map:
Extract from the New Plan of Industrial Brussels, 19102. The port district around the Tour & Taxis site. <\/p>\n
1.<\/strong> The Jubilee Bridge overlooking the Tour & Taxis site.<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> 158 Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9, first address of Joachim Riez.<\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> Site of the Riez building, built before Avenue Henri Hollevoet was laid out.<\/p>\n 4.<\/strong> 51 Avenue du Port, site of Joachim Riez\u2019s warehouses.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#4C625D” custom_margin=”|||20px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Extract from A. Verwest, M. Vanderoost and F. Xhardez, Nouveau Plan de Bruxelles industriel.<\/em> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”width: 30%!important” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The widening of the Willebroeck Canal and the creation of a new inland port at Brussels at the end of the nineteenth century led to the construction of the Tour and Taxis site, containing warehouses, a railway goods station and customs offices, located at the edges of the areas covered by Molenbeek-Saint- Jean council and Brussels city council. The development of this new economic hub in an area that had hardly been built-up before led to the growth of the port district, made up of business offices, warehouses and workers\u2019 dwellings, but also, in the early years of the twentieth century, of two prestigious main roads, Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 and Boulevard \u00c9mile Bockstael, laid out to improve access to the rapidly expanding suburbs of Laeken and Jette. The first buildings on Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 were recorded in 1906*. This boulevard was the location of several remarkable large buildings, including the Riez building, commissioned by business owners with interests in and around the port. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In 1925, Joachim Riez, a construction materials merchant, married to F\u00e9licie- Anna Bovy, placed the winning bid at an auction held at the request of the City of Brussels Hospitals and Public Assistance Board (now known as the CPAS), for a plot of land on the corner of Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 and the new Avenue Henri Hollevoet**. On 5 January 1927, he applied to Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council for a building permit for four houses with a combined facade 60 metres long.***<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#B59858″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n * The Brussels Directory of Commerce and Industry, classified by street, 1906. https:\/\/archives.bruxelles.be\/<\/a><\/em> almanachs<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#B59858″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n ** Deed of Purchase of the plot at 86-88 Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 and 1 Avenue Henri Hollevoet, 1963, CDA archive. <\/em><\/p>\n *** Urban Planning Archive of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council 14796.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”width: 30%!important” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n He had commissioned the architect Jean-Baptiste Dewin to design and build two houses for rent at numbers 3 and 5 Avenue Henri Hollevoet, plus, on the corner of Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9, another building with offices for the Rupel Industrial Company on the ground floor and an apartment for him and his wife on the first floor, each with its own entrance. The architect asked for an exemption from the rule on the height of the railings required to separate the houses in Avenue Henri Hollevoet from the pavement.****<\/p>\n Given the design of the facades, this exemption was granted when the building permit was issued on 27 January 1927, a mere three weeks after the application was made, which was not unusual at that time ! The contract to build the houses was awarded to the Edouard Fran\u00e7ois et Fils firm, of 43 Rue du Cornet in Etterbeek, which provided a team of twenty builders.*\/<\/p>\n This building contractor was well known at the time, having already been employed by Victor Horta to build the Solvay mansion (1894-1903), and by Michel Polak as one of the contractors to build the R\u00e9sidence Palace (1922-1927), and it would go on to be contracted by Michel Polak to build the Villa Empain (1930-1934).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#B59858″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n **** The rules stated that the railings must be made of a base of dressed stone 25cm tall, topped with railings 130cm tall to give a total height of 155cm above the pavement. However, the plans indicate that the planned railings had a base of between 50 and 65 cm tall topped with railings 60cm tall, thus creating a total height of between 110 and 125cm. Urban Planning Archive of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council 14796. <\/p>\n *\/ Urban Planning Archive of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council 14796.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ make_equal=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|off” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FEFDEF” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”width: 20%!important;||margin-top:auto;||margin-bottom:auto;” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”right” custom_margin=”|||20px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Main elevation of the Riez building from Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9.<\/p>\n On the left is n\u00b0 86, with the entrance to the apartment, and on the right is n\u00b0 88, with the entrance to the offices.<\/p>\n Urban Planning Archive of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council 14796.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/hotelriez.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hotel-riez-home.jpg” title_text=”Hotel riez home” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ use_custom_gutter=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|off” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FEFDEF” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”width: 20%!important” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”width: 30%!important” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The construction work was almost complete when Riez asked if he could make some small changes to the original plans. He asked for the second floor at the rear of the main building, then being built, to be raised, and for a small service lift (for coal etc.) to be installed. The council granted a second permit on 16 December 1927* covering these changes and the construction work was declared complete on 7 April 1928. In 1929, the Brussels Directory of Commerce and Industry shows that the Rupel Industrial Company had its offices at 88 Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 and that Joachim Riez was living at 86 Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9. The two houses in Avenue Henri Hollevoet were quickly put up for rent. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#B59858″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n * Urban Planning Archive of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council 15356.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”width: 30%!important” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n F\u00e9licie-Anna Bovy, Joachim Riez\u2019s wife, died in 1935 and Riez himself died in 1948, at the end of a long and successful career as an industrialist. The buildings passed to his two unmarried sisters, Denise and Elmyre, and the Rupel Industrial Company continued to rent its offices from them. Denise died in 1959 and, in 1963, Elmyre sold the offices and apartment to CDA, a mutual, co-operative, fire-insurance company founded in 1909, whose head office was already located in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. CDA then moved into the building on Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9, which it still occupies today. In 1992, the building underwent a restoration and conversion that retained its heritage character by the Lantin-Schoreels-Clinquart-Minden architectural practice under the direction of Andr\u00e9 de Molinari. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row disabled_on=”off|off|on” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FEFDEF” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”|5%||5%|false|true” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/hotelriez.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/HOTEL_RIEZ_Livre_NL2.jpg” title_text=”HOTEL_RIEZ_Livre_NL2″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” header_font_size=”36px” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The widening of the Willebroeck Canal and the creation of a new inland port at Brussels at the end of the nineteenth century led to the construction of the Tour and Taxis site, containing warehouses, a railway goods station and customs offices, located at the edges of the areas covered by Molenbeek-Saint- Jean council and Brussels city council. The development of this new economic hub in an area that had hardly been built-up before led to the growth of the port district, made up of business offices, warehouses and workers\u2019 dwellings, but also, in the early years of the twentieth century, of two prestigious main roads, Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 and Boulevard \u00c9mile Bockstael, laid out to improve access to the rapidly expanding suburbs of Laeken and Jette. The first buildings on Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 were recorded in 1906*. This boulevard was the location of several remarkable large buildings, including the Riez building, commissioned by business owners with interests in and around the port. <\/p>\n In 1925, Joachim Riez, a construction materials merchant, married to F\u00e9licie- Anna Bovy, placed the winning bid at an auction held at the request of the City of Brussels Hospitals and Public Assistance Board (now known as the CPAS), for a plot of land on the corner of Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 and the new Avenue Henri Hollevoet**. On 5 January 1927, he applied to Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council for a building permit for four houses with a combined facade 60 metres long.***<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#B59858″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Photo: The Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 and the Jubilee Bridge before the First World War. <\/em><\/p>\n * The Brussels Directory of Commerce and Industry, classified by street, 1906. https:\/\/archives.bruxelles.be\/<\/a> almanachs<\/a>. [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/hotelriez.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/plattegrond.jpg” title_text=”map” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Extract from the New Plan of Industrial Brussels, 19102. The port district around the Tour & Taxis site. <\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> The Jubilee Bridge overlooking the Tour & Taxis site. [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n He had commissioned the architect Jean-Baptiste Dewin to design and build two houses for rent at numbers 3 and 5 Avenue Henri Hollevoet, plus, on the corner of Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9, another building with offices for the Rupel Industrial Company on the ground floor and an apartment for him and his wife on the first floor, each with its own entrance. The architect asked for an exemption from the rule on the height of the railings required to separate the houses in Avenue Henri Hollevoet from the pavement.****<\/p>\n Given the design of the facades, this exemption was granted when the building permit was issued on 27 January 1927, a mere three weeks after the application was made, which was not unusual at that time ! The contract to build the houses was awarded to the Edouard Fran\u00e7ois et Fils firm, of 43 Rue du Cornet in Etterbeek, which provided a team of twenty builders.*\/<\/p>\n This building contractor was well known at the time, having already been employed by Victor Horta to build the Solvay mansion (1894-1903), and by Michel Polak as one of the contractors to build the R\u00e9sidence Palace (1922-1927), and it would go on to be contracted by Michel Polak to build the Villa Empain (1930-1934).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#B59858″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n **** The rules stated that the railings must be made of a base of dressed stone 25cm tall, topped with railings 130cm tall to give a total height of 155cm above the pavement. However, the plans indicate that the planned railings had a base of between 50 and 65 cm tall topped with railings 60cm tall, thus creating a total height of between 110 and 125cm. Urban Planning Archive of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council 14796. <\/em><\/p>\n *\/ Urban Planning Archive of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council 14796.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/hotelriez.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hotel-riez-home.jpg” title_text=”Hotel riez home” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Main elevation of the Riez building from Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9. On the left is n\u00b0 86, with the entrance to the apartment, and on the right is n\u00b0 88, with the entrance to the offices. Urban Planning Archive of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council 14796. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The construction work was almost complete when Riez asked if he could make some small changes to the original plans. He asked for the second floor at the rear of the main building, then being built, to be raised, and for a small service lift (for coal etc.) to be installed. The council granted a second permit on 16 December 1927* covering these changes and the construction work was declared complete on 7 April 1928. In 1929, the Brussels Directory of Commerce and Industry shows that the Rupel Industrial Company had its offices at 88 Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 and that Joachim Riez was living at 86 Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9. The two houses in Avenue Henri Hollevoet were quickly put up for rent. <\/p>\n F\u00e9licie-Anna Bovy, Joachim Riez\u2019s wife, died in 1935 and Riez himself died in 1948, at the end of a long and successful career as an industrialist. The buildings passed to his two unmarried sisters, Denise and Elmyre, and the Rupel Industrial Company [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#B59858″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n * Urban Planning Archive of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council 15356.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A PRESTIGIOUS BUILDINGIN THE PORT DISTRICTphoto:The Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 and the Jubilee Bridge before the First World War. Map:Extract from the New Plan of Industrial Brussels, 19102. The port district around the Tour & Taxis site. 1. 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Avec ses suburbains, Brussels, Khiat, 1910.<\/em><\/p>\nA PRESTIGIOUS BUILDING IN THE PORT DISTRICT<\/h1>\n
<\/em>** Deed of Purchase of the plot at 86-88 Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9 and 1 Avenue Henri Hollevoet, 1963, CDA archive.
<\/em>*** Urban Planning Archive of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean council 14796.<\/em><\/p>\n
2.<\/strong> 158 Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9, first address of Joachim Riez.
3.<\/strong> Site of the Riez building, built before Avenue Henri Hollevoet was laid out.
4.<\/strong> 51 Avenue du Port, site of Joachim Riez\u2019s warehouses.<\/p>\n
continued to rent its offices from them. Denise died in 1959 and, in 1963, Elmyre sold the offices and apartment to CDA, a mutual, co-operative, fire-insurance company founded in 1909, whose head office was already located in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. CDA then moved into the building on Boulevard du Jubil\u00e9, which it still occupies today. In 1992, the building underwent a restoration and conversion that retained its heritage character by the Lantin-Schoreels-Clinquart-Minden architectural practice under the direction of Andr\u00e9 de Molinari. <\/p>\n