Guimard Entrance Station de Metro Anvers - Paris, France
Posted by: 
manchanegra
N 48° 52.974 E 002° 20.640
31U E 451906 N 5414645
On of the famous Hector Guimard Paris Metro Entrances, a famous landmark of Paris.
Waymark Code: WMD5RJ
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 11/23/2011
Views: 25
Anvers (Sacré-Cœur) is a station on Paris Métro Line 2, on the border of the 9th and the 18th arrondissements in Montmartre.
The station was opened on 21 October 1902 as part of the extension of line 2 from Étoile. It was the eastern terminus of the line until its extension to Bagnolet (now called Alexandre Dumas) on 31 January 1903. The station is named after the Place d'Anvers and the city of Antwerp (Anvers in French).
The station is located under the Boulevard de Rochechouart, which was built on the route of the Wall of the Farmers-General in order to enforce the collection of taxation between 1784 and 1791 but demolished in the 19th century. Anvers (Sacré-Cœur) is only station on line 2 between the Charles de Gaulle—Étoile and the Nation stations that is not built on the site of a gate (or barrière in French) of the wall. The area became important intersections and, thus, logical places for stations. Instead Anvers station was placed as close to the foot of the Montmartre funicular as possible. Nevertheless, the Barrière de Rochechouart was at the east, near the junction of the Boulevard de Rochechouart and the Rue de Rochechouart. Also near are the hill of Montmartre and the Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur.
From Wikipedia
Hector Guimard (Lyon, March 10, 1867 – New York, May 20, 1942) was an architect, who is now the best-known representative of the French Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
His best known for his Entrances to the Paris Metro based on the ornamented structures of Viollet-le-Duc, a Cast-iron balustrade decorated in plant-like motifs, accompanied by a "Métropolitain" sign supported by two orange globes atop ornate cast-iron supports in the form of plant stems.
This one is located in the Anvers entrance.
Style: Art Nouveau
Structure Type: Other
Architect: Hector Guimard
Date Built: 1902
Supporting references: Not listed
|
Visit Instructions:
Logging requirements: Please upload your own personal photo of the building. You or your GPS can be in the picture, but it’s not a requirement.