Maison Mantin, 19th century mansion in Moulins, France

Maison Mantin is a late 19th-century bourgeois mansion at 3 place du Colonel-Laussedat in Moulins, built 1894–1897 to designs by René-Justin Moreau with his father Jean-Bélisaire Moreau. The two-storey facade mixes light stone blocks with red brick quoins and window surrounds under a steep brown tiled roof, with tall brick chimneys at each end and a central dormer with a small balcony. A low stone and brick wall with black wrought-iron railings and a double gate bearing the number 3 encloses the front; a square brick tower with pale stone windows rises on the right.

Louis Mantin commissioned the house to display his art and antiquities collection. It was designed by René-Justin Moreau with his father Jean-Bélisaire Moreau and built between 1894 and 1897 on land where his grandfather had a furniture workshop. Mantin died in 1905 and left the house to Moulins, requiring it to open as a museum five years later; it did so in 1910, then closed for seventy years before reopening in November 2010 after restoration.

Louis Mantin left the house to Moulins on condition it show, a century later, "a specimen of a 19th-century bourgeois home". The interior keeps his eclectic mix: neo-Renaissance plasterwork and Louis XVIII-style paintings in the "four seasons" room, Art Nouveau stained glass in the bathroom, and a salon chandelier still holding three tricolour bulbs from his day.

The house stands at 3 place du Colonel-Laussedat, between the château des ducs de Bourbon and the musée Anne-de-Beaujeu, near the cathedral. Visits are guided, and the restored rooms reopened in November 2010 after about three years of work. Allow time for the garden of roughly 2,000 m² below the Mal-Coiffée tower and the terrace leading to the main entrance.

Louis Mantin is buried under a pyramid in Moulins's Cimetière de Paris. His will required the museum Anne de Beaujeu and the house to open to the public five years after his death, so the house first opened in 1910, not a century later; visits were then limited between the wars and it closed for seventy years.