Château de la Germonière

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Château de la Germonière is located in the commune of Le Vast, in the Manche department of Normandy. The site was originally a cotton-spinning mill founded in 1803 by Philippe Fontenilliat, a Rouen merchant, who also had a manor house built perpendicular to the avenue and had the water installations organised to bring together the falls of three former mills. After the mill closed, the industrial buildings were demolished and the site became a pleasure estate. Raoul-Hippolyte-Edmond Rangeard de La Germonière had a U-plan residence open onto the park built there at the end of the nineteenth century, the work of the architect Trolliet. The park, restructured with the firm Combaz, reuses the mill's hydraulic network: cascades, ponds, tailrace canal, island and great avenue. The park, the water features, the island and the great avenue have been listed as monuments historiques since 28 March 2008; the château itself is not protected. The materials and interior layout are not documented. It is a private estate.