Woluwe-Saint-Lambert · Brussels

Avenue des
Rogations

Kruisdagenlaan

One street, laid out around 1900 and built up in the space of about five years — and one of the densest runs of Art Nouveau detail in the eastern communes of Brussels. Twenty inventoried addresses below, read from the pavement: sgraffiti, logettes, wrought iron, stained glass.

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How the avenue came to be

Avenue des Rogations runs from boulevard Brand Whitlock to rue de Linthout. Its line belongs to the grid drawn around 1900 by Firmin Lambeau, administrator of the Tuinbouwmaatschappij van Linthout — a horticultural company founded in 1898 that turned itself into a property developer and parcelled out the land along the new boulevard. The street name, recalling the old rogation processions, was fixed by the municipal council on 19 December 1900.

Building went up in a rush in the mid-1900s, mostly in the eclectic style of the day. But geometric Art Nouveau got its share: Édouard Frankinet built his own house here at no. 21 and three more besides; Paul Hamesse signed the trio at 39–43; Camille Damman signed no. 15; Désiré Van Hemelryck worked at 11, 67–71 and 102. Hamesse's manner shows up again in unsigned fronts at 26–30, 53–57 and 60.

What to look for

No. 21 · 1903 · listed 2022

Maison Frankinet

The architect's own house, and the set piece of the avenue. Three storeys of yellow-and-green sandstone rubble, red brick and white stone, all picked out in worked blue stone. A broad door under a mascaron carries a triangular oriel with a curved-panel roof; the top of it sits inside a horseshoe arch bearing a second mascaron. Above, six narrow paired bays and a frieze of sgraffiti — floral motifs flanked by female profiles, possibly by Paul Cauchie. Look at the door: tripartite, mask motifs, and an oval light glazed with a peacock. Frankinet put his studio at the back of the plot the same year.

Classified by the Brussels Government in 2022, with protection extending inside to the entrance hall and the staircase up to the first floor.

Inventory notice, urban.brussels →

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Sources & credits

A walking guide, not a heritage authority. All the houses are private homes — please look from the pavement.