Palais Cambon, Neoclassical palace in 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.
Palais Cambon is a five-storey neoclassical building at 13 rue Cambon, built around a square inner courtyard. Its light grey stone facade has a large arched entrance beneath a dark sign with gold capitals reading "COUR DES COMPTES", flanked by two banded, grooved columns, with a wrought-iron balcony above. Inside, a gilded coffered ceiling with painted floral rosettes covers the first-floor rooms.
The palace was built between 1898 and 1912 by architects Constant Moyaux and Paul Guadet on the site of former military barracks and a school building. This construction was part of Paris's urban modernization efforts during the early 1900s.
The building serves as home to France's Court of Accounts, an institution responsible for overseeing public finances and government spending. The ornate rooms and their decoration express the importance of this financial watchdog role through the grandeur of the architecture itself.
The palace is located in the 1st arrondissement and is easily accessible from central Paris via public transit. As an active government building, visitors should expect that access to interior spaces may be restricted.
The archive building was finished first and is now called the Chicago Tower, after the architectural school that inspired its design; its full conversion into offices was completed in 2009. The heritage listing of 18 May 1993 covers the facades and roofs of all buildings except the 1967 one on rue Saint-Honoré, plus the first-floor decorated rooms and the ironwork stair rail.
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