History of a street · 1050 Ixelles

Avenue Armand Huysmans

In Dutch: Armand Huysmanslaan

Avenue Armand Huysmans, in Ixelles, has 104 buildings on the Atlas map, for 120 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 52% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. Almost everything there appears after 1914.

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When the street was built

  • before 14000
  • 1400 – 15990
  • 1600 – 16990
  • 1700 – 17990
  • 1800 – 18490
  • 1850 – 18790
  • 1880 – 19130
  • 1914 – 19442
  • 1945 – 196954
  • 1970 – 198938
  • 1990 – 20097
  • since 20103

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 32: 1938. 5 buildings in the street are dated by the heritage inventory.

Today's buildings, grouped by the period when the Atlas map first shows building on their plot. Approximate reconstruction.

Where its name comes from

Kind of name
Commemorative name
Theme
Local notables
Named in
1935

Armand Huysman (1872-1935). Bourgmestre d'Ixelles entre 1929 et 1935.. Ex. Avenue Alphonse Daudet (1934), Antérieurement, Avenue des Latins. (remark in French, as published)

Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.