Hotel on Avenue Moulay Youssef

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URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/111800

Date

1920-1929

Description

A hotel in Centre ville of Rabat on Av. Moulay Youssef, built during the French Protectorate. It is approximately 5 stories above ground, with the first and second floor being occupied by a cafe and restaurant. Windows are ornamented with balconets, horseshoe arches, cusped arches, lattice work, columns and the like. The whitewashed exterior is also embellished in places with ochre-colored carved stucco and green roofing tile

exterior, detail of three horseshoe arch windows, side street facade, 1993

Type of Work

Hotel (public accommodation)

Subject

Hotels (Public accommodations), Stucco, Rabat (Morocco), Architecture --Morocco, Decoration and ornament, Architectural --Morocco, Architecture, French colonial, Maghreb, Windows, Columns, Horseshoe arches, Roofing tile, Floral patterns, Porte-cochères

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