The Palace of the Woman is located rue de Charonne, at the corner of Faidherbe Street, in the 11th district of Paris.
This building was built in 1910 a few years after the demolition of a convent built in the seventeenth century and occupied until the early twentieth by Dominican nuns. Designed by architects Auguste Labussière and Célestin Longerey, the new building is designed to accommodate single men in a difficult financial situation.
During the First World War, a military hospital was built and from 1918 to 1924, the offices of the Ministry of Pensions were installed there. At the end of a subscription, the Salvation Army bought the site and inaugurated the Palace of the Woman in 1926. More than 600 rooms, located in the five floors, allow to house women in precarious situation and on the ground floor. -chaussée, collective spaces like the restaurant and the library are available.
Listed in the additional inventory of historic monuments in 2003, the building is undergoing a renovation from 2006 to 2009. In particular, are protected elements characteristic of Belle Époque architecture such as decorations (stained glass, paintings and paintings). Ceramics) adorning the collective spaces of the ground floor but also the vestibule, the stairs, the facade and the inner canopy.
The Palace of the Woman is still an establishment managed by the Salvation Army. Apart from what can be observed from the outside (elements and decorations of the facade), the general public has access to the building and the glass roof only very occasionally, during open days in particular. Information on +33 1 46 59 30 00.
