100 years in 2024
The history of the Hotel Brueghel
The ancestor of the Brueghel Hotel, the Continental Hotel, was built at the very end of the 19th century. It had 3 floors and included a restaurant on the ground floor.
It was destroyed in October 1914, during the bombing of the station district by the Germans.
In 1924, the Moderne Hotel was built on the same site. It was at this time that the hotel was adorned with its neo-Flemish style facade, by the architect Auguste Corbeau.
A extension of the hotel was built in 1928, by the same architect, in the same style. At that time, it had 81 rooms on 6 floors (compared to 61 rooms today), with rooms on the ground floor, but only two shared toilets and one bathroom per floor.
In the early 1970s, the Hôtel Moderne changed its name and became the Hôtel Brueghel.
It was bought in 1988 by Danièle Lhermie. A woman of taste, she transformed the aging Hôtel Brueghel and created an elegant place with personalized decoration combining antique and contemporary furniture and objects.
Since then, we have been perpetuating the hotel's identity combining history, elegance and personalized decoration of one of the last independent hotels in Lille.
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