The house was once the home of Doctor Paul Curie, who was the grandfather of the famous Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Pierre Curie. Later, it was the home of a family of industrialists. The dwelling features on the visitor circuit for discovering Mulhouse’s historical heart.

The property is just a stone’s throw from Saint-Jean chapel, which dates back to the 13th century. It is nestled among calm streets in the city centre. A tree-dotted garden of around four ares surrounds the house. A stone wall separates the garden from the road. You enter the edifice via a double flight of outdoor steps that lead up the south-west-facing facade, or through a vehicle gate on the property’s north-east side. A pedestrian gate on the property’s east corner leads into a small garden of around 70m².

The grand house is made of rubble stone coated with rendering. It is rectangular and has three floors. Its street-facing facade is divided into five bays. The dwelling is crowned with a roof of interlocking tiles, punctuated with gabled dormers.

The modillions that adorn its cornice, the straight pediment that caps its main door, the quoins that embellish its ground floor, and its tall windows, neatly arranged and fitted with decorated wooden shutters, give pleasant symmetry and rhythm to this remarkable home. The oak entrance door beneath a fanlight of small panes is framed between two pilasters. The house offers a floor area of around 430m².

The grand house

The ground floor
Once you have stepped through the front door, a colourfully glazed double door takes you into a vast hallway with a floor of white stone tiling patterned with small black square inserts. This hall connects to five rooms that are currently spread between two separate apartments.

In the first apartment, a large lounge with old wood strip flooring and dado panelling is filled with natural light from three large windows, two of which face south-west. This lounge connects to a kitchen, which leads to a small garden, and to a large bedroom that offers a garden view. In line with the latter, a corridor takes you to a bathroom and a second bedroom, which you can also reach via a flight of outdoor steps from the garden.

The second apartment leads straight out into the garden on the south-east side via French windows in a spacious lounge. These French windows and two other windows bring much natural light into this room with wood strip flooring. A door leads to this apartment’s only bedroom, which offers a garden view. Behind this room, there is a bathroom and a kitchen with a stone sink.

All the ground floor rooms connect to the hallway, apart from a bathroom and a bedroom.

The first floor
A broad, majestic timber staircase with a finely carved balustrade of solid wood leads up to a large apartment on the first floor. A central hallway connects to almost all the rooms of this apartment. A kitchen adjoins a bathroom, which has an old bathtub. Further on, a spacious lounge with herringbone parquet connects to two other reception rooms, which both face south-west. One of these rooms features a black marble fireplace. Three bedrooms take up the rest of this floor.

The second floor
The second floor is in the loft space. Five rooms with wood strip flooring all connect to a central landing. Some of these rooms were once used as domestic staff bedrooms. An upper roof space can be reached from the second floor via a wooden staircase.