Image: (Toulouse) 24 Grande-rue Nazareth - Hôtel d'Avizard - Façade

Description: The hotel was built after 1686 by the master mason Sarraude for Claude Davisard, king's adviser and president of the Palace Inquiries. It was kept in the family until the French Revolution. The building originally consists of several buildings, along the main street Nazareth, the rue Caminade and the rue Sesquières, which frame an interior courtyard. The main facade on the first street is characteristic of classical Toulouse art. It is symmetrical, four bays wide and two descending stories high. The central semicircular porte-cochere is in alternating stone and brick, and surmounted by a dentil cornice. The windows on the ground floor and on the two floors are rectangular and their frames also alternate brick and stone. On both floors, these frames extend beyond the molded stone sills to the lower windows. Table patterns separate the floors and the windows. The two side windows on the 1st floor have balconies which rest on molded consoles and have wrought iron railings. The elevation is crowned by a large overhanging ledge with dentils. The old stables are decorated with a 19th century terracotta statue from the Giscard factory.
Title: (Toulouse) 24 Grande-rue Nazareth - Hôtel d'Avizard - Façade
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