Rene Levavasseur

Rene Levavasseur , born with Vire (Apple-brandy) on October 24th 1881, deceased on November 10th 1962 is a Architecte French, whose constructions concentrate in Cherbourg and in Cotentin.

Rene Levavasseur in particular conceived, at the request of the town of Cherbourg which wished “vastest and the most beautiful station of the world” to compete with Le Havre, the transatlantic harbor station of Cherbourg, a whole out of reinforced concrete of 25.000 square meters and 280 meters length equipped with a very beautiful interior decoration in the style Art Déco. It was inaugurated on July 30th, 1933 by the president of the Republic Albert Lebrun.

Graduate of the School of the Art schools of Paris, he is also the originator of the Atlantic Hotel (1926), aiming at lodging the European emigrants in departure for the United States, of the building of the Department stores Ratti (1929) located street Gambetta at Cherbourg, of the seat of the General society of Cherbourg (1911), of the old head office of the Press of the English Channel, and of the town hall of Vire.

It also constructed many residences and private mansions the top Cotentin, of which at its beginnings the villa of the Rock of Airel (1908), on the heights of Urville-Nacqueville and the Hotel Dubois, 53 rue Montebello in Cherbourg (1909), then plutard the Sottile Hotel, street Asselin, seat of the Consulate of Italy (1932), and the villa Fresquet (1933) in Tourlaville. One also owes him the Norman Village with Urville-Nacqueville (1911), destroyed during the War.

It devoted the last years of its life to the rebuilding of its achievements partially damaged at the time the bombardments of the Débarquement, as the Harbor station, as to the interior refitting of the church of Rolls and to the construction of the Vault of the Good-Saver of Picauville.

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Rene Levavasseur an great architect of the Thirties

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