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Villa La Mauresque

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Villa La Mauresque is a villa on Cap Ferrat at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France, built around 1900 in Moorish style by the missionary Felix Charmettant on a four hectare parcel, with a classical layout arranged around a central patio with arcaded galleries. The writer Somerset Maugham bought the property in 1927 and hired the architects Henri Delmotte, Marcel Guilgot and Barry Dierks to strip away its original neo-oriental details and modernize the layout, keeping it as his main residence until his death in 1965. Lynn Wyatt acquired the villa in 1967, and the Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash became its owner around 2005; classified as a protected cultural property since November 2008 and listed in France's General Inventory of Cultural Heritage, it remains a private residence. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France 2
Completed Year
1927 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
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Villa, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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Source Villa La Mauresque (Wikipedia)
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
Sources
1. Villa La Mauresque (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_La_Mauresque, lead definition
    The villa La Mauresque is located in cap Ferrat (Alpes-Maritimes) and was remodeled in 1927 by Henri Delmotte, Marcel Guilgot, and the American architect Barry Dierks (1899-1960) to serve as the main residence of the British novelist Somerset Maugham.
  • Wikipedia categories
    Category:Houses completed in 1927
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Villa La Mauresque is a villa on Cap Ferrat at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France, built around 1900 in Moorish style by the missionary Felix Charmettant on a four hectare parcel, with a classical layout arranged around a central patio with arcaded galleries. The writer Somerset Maugham bought the property in 1927 and hired the architects Henri Delmotte, Marcel Guilgot and Barry Dierks to strip away its original neo-oriental details and modernize the layout, keeping it as his main residence until his death in 1965. Lynn Wyatt acquired the villa in 1967, and the Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash became its owner around 2005; classified as a protected cultural property since November 2008 and listed in France's General Inventory of Cultural Heritage, it remains a private residence.
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2. Villa La Mauresque (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
    Wikidata item Q3558617, instance of (P31): villa
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France
    Wikidata item Q3558617, property P131/P17 (location): Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France
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Wikidata: Villa La Mauresque
Wikidata Q3558617, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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