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The Château du Croûton, also known as the Château Wollaston and later as the Château de Juan-les-Pins, is a residence built around 1860 on the Cap d'Antibes, in Juan-les-Pins, near the Port du Croûton from which it takes its name. The symmetrical building combines an Ionic order, caryatids, a semicircular balcony, projecting bays and stucco decoration imitating eighteenth-century motifs; it notably includes an English-style hall with a double gallery adorned with a wrought-iron railing. The property belonged successively to Queen Émilie of Saxony, then to a Cannes physician who named it Château Wollaston, before passing to the Russian baron Constantin de Silvansky, who lost it gambling at the Monte-Carlo casino. Acquired in 1914 by the American perfumer Richard Hudnut, it became the summer residence of the actor Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova, Hudnut's stepdaughter, who were married there in 1922. Sold in 1934 for six million francs, the property was acquired by Henri Logut, who had it divided into apartments in 1951, before works to add extra storeys were carried out by the architect Marcel-Victor Guilgot in 1960. The château, now restored and divided into private apartments, is recorded in the general inventory of cultural heritage as part of the seaside heritage of the Côte d'Azur.
