The hotel’s history is linked to the history of the city and its inhabitants. In 1903, Monsieur Henri Gangloff, alongside architect Louis Schwartz, decided to unify the roofs of the building and install the famous Galerie Gangloff, the library, an antiques shop and a framing workshop. On the second floor, the Braun brothers, illustrious tenants, installed their own photography workshop where they developed photographs of their numerous voyages.
The private apartments were on the third floor, with eight attics made for the 8 children of the family who was living there. Hôtel du Parc opened its doors in front of Mulhouse Theatre and Parc Steinbach, just a few minutes away from the Thirteenth-century fortification wall. It was made up by three adjoining houses and the famous Gangloff Library, dating back to 1904.
The architect Louis Schwartz gave this ensemble a stunning Neoclassical facade, with sculptures and stone of the highest quality that put it on the same level as the most beautiful Parisian buildings of the time.
Since then, the hotel had four floors and was almost 10,000 ft2 in size per floor, thus becoming a regular meeting point.
It became the most exclusive spot in the city and the Mulhouse region, enjoying long years of lavishness and a celebrity clientele, which you can see in the hotel’s guest book.
Hôtel du Parc belonged to the Mulhouse Hotel Society, the majority of which was owned by local industrialists.
