Charles Rayé

Charles Rayé was a physician from Vilvoorde who had the Château de Huyenhoven built in 1860, also called Huinhoven, a small neo-medieval residence on the northern edge of the Floordambos, at the boundaries of Peutie, Perk and Melsbroek. A farm was also erected on his orders about a hundred metres to the east, on the territory of Melsbroek. Rayé died in 1867, the year in which a sale notice cites Antoine Trappeniers as the designer of the château; the estate then passed to Joseph T'Sas.