Step Into History
Walk Rouen in 1876
AI rebuilds Rouen street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Step Into History · City walk
Impressionists' Rouen, 1876
Rouen in 1876 is a busy river city where a newly rebuilt cast‑iron spire crowns the cathedral and steamers tie up along the Seine beneath warehouses stacked with cotton bales. The walk moves from the river approach, along the active quays and through the bourgeois streets and medieval lanes that artists and writers of the era knew well.
35 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Rouen as it stood in 1876 (“Rouen”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. View from Grand‑Quevilly
- 2. Pont Corneille
- 3. Quai de Paris
- ↳ Steamer Agents' Office · interior
- 4. Quai de la Bourse
- ↳ Cotton Exchange Counting Room · interior
- 5. Lower Quays and Warehouses
- ↳ Warehouse Loft with Bales · interior
- 6. Place du Vieux‑Marché
- ↳ Covered Butchers' Hall · interior
- 7. Rue du Gros‑Horloge
- ↳ Clockmakers' Workshop · interior
- 8. Gros‑Horloge Belfry
- ↳ Clockroom of the Gros‑Horloge · interior
- 9. Rue Saint‑Romain
- 10. Rue des Carmes
- 11. Saint‑Maclou Church
- ↳ Saint‑Maclou Nave · interior
- 12. Palais de Justice
- ↳ Great Hall of the Palais · interior
- 13. Hôtel de Bourgtheroulde
- ↳ Renaissance Ballroom · interior
- 14. Rue Beauvoisine
- 15. Rouen Cathedral
- ↳ Cathedral Ambulatory · interior
- 16. Place de la Cathédrale
- 17. Jardin des Plantes
- ↳ Palm Greenhouse · interior
- 18. Musée des Beaux‑Arts
- ↳ Grand Salon of the Musée · interior
- 19. Tour Jeanne d'Arc
- 20. Île Lacroix Riverside
- 21. Pont Boïeldieu Panorama
- 22. Gare de Rouen‑Rive‑Droite
- ↳ Iron Arrival Hall · interior