The Villa Brossette, currently occupied by the ARPC (National Agency for the Management of Major Cultural Projects), is located at 19 Avenue Souidani Boudjemaa, Algiers. With its garden and other outbuildings, it occupies a plot of 8600 m2. It is bounded to the Northeast by the Boulevard des Martyrs and to the Southwest by Avenue Souidani Boudjemaa.
Historical Background
The villa was built by Mustapha Pacha during the Ottoman era in the mid-18th century. It served as a luxurious hotel intended to accommodate wealthy and noble travelers, mainly foreigners, and especially Britons. It was therefore a large caravanserai. The term caravanserai is mentioned in a paragraph of the book titled “Tourism in Algeria: The Time of Winter Visitors” written by Pierre Goinard. Under a photograph illustrating the El Djazair Hotel (formerly St. George): “Beyond the hotel, to the left of the last bend before the Voirol Column, and in a dominant position, the Splendid, a huge caravanserai, with a neo-Moorish patio, in the middle of a vast pine forest revealing from one of its terraces a very beautiful view of Alger the White.” It was in relation to this caravanserai that the idea of building the El Djazair Hotel (formerly St. George) just opposite it was born.
Other villas of this style, located in Mustapha Supérieur, considered the English quarter, were occupied by Britons. In fact, the British Consul Henry Stanford Blanckley resided in this villa with his family from 1806 to 1812.
Towards the end of the 19th century, an English architect named Benjamin Bucknall transformed it into a neo-Moorish style and adapted it to the European way of life. On March 17, 1841, Claude Brossette founded an industry of wrought iron in France; the company was prosperous and quickly developed in several fields (sanitary, heating, wines, etc.). Pierre, Brossette’s grandson, settled in Algiers towards the end of the 19th century and opened branches there, notably a wine house “BROSSETTE” near Hussein Dey. It was thus that he acquired the former caravanserai built in Moorish style by Mustapha Pacha and arranged in neo-Moorish style by the English architect Bucknall, adapting it to the Western way of life; this villa has since been known as “Brossette.”
The Villa Brossette, currently occupied by the ARPC (National Agency for the Management of Major Cultural Projects), is located at 19 Avenue Souidani Boudjemaa, Algiers. With its garden and other outbuildings, it occupies a plot of 8600 m2. It is bounded to the Northeast by the Boulevard des Martyrs and to the Southwest by Avenue Souidani Boudjemaa.
Historical Background
The villa was built by Mustapha Pacha during the Ottoman era in the mid-18th century. It served as a luxurious hotel intended to accommodate wealthy and noble travelers, mainly foreigners, and especially Britons. It was therefore a large caravanserai. The term caravanserai is mentioned in a paragraph of the book titled “Tourism in Algeria: The Time of Winter Visitors” written by Pierre Goinard. Under a photograph illustrating the El Djazair Hotel (formerly St. George): “Beyond the hotel, to the left of the last bend before the Voirol Column, and in a dominant position, the Splendid, a huge caravanserai, with a neo-Moorish patio, in the middle of a vast pine forest revealing from one of its terraces a very beautiful view of Alger the White.” It was in relation to this caravanserai that the idea of building the El Djazair Hotel (formerly St. George) just opposite it was born.
Other villas of this style, located in Mustapha Supérieur, considered the English quarter, were occupied by Britons. In fact, the British Consul Henry Stanford Blanckley resided in this villa with his family from 1806 to 1812.
Towards the end of the 19th century, an English architect named Benjamin Bucknall transformed it into a neo-Moorish style and adapted it to the European way of life. On March 17, 1841, Claude Brossette founded an industry of wrought iron in France; the company was prosperous and quickly developed in several fields (sanitary, heating, wines, etc.). Pierre, Brossette’s grandson, settled in Algiers towards the end of the 19th century and opened branches there, notably a wine house “BROSSETTE” near Hussein Dey. It was thus that he acquired the former caravanserai built in Moorish style by Mustapha Pacha and arranged in neo-Moorish style by the English architect Bucknall, adapting it to the Western way of life; this villa has since been known as “Brossette.”
