Hotel d'Hane-Steenhuyse, Ghent

The Hotel d'Hane-Steenhuyse is an 18th-century city palace. It was a possession of the D'Hane de Steenhuyse family for a while.

The building was erected in 1768–1773 by Jan Baptist Simoens, who designed and built the rear facade and the salle à l'italienne with certainty. The facade was perhaps designed by David 't Kindt, but archival evidence is not of this. Around the beginning of the 19th century, the building was used for the noble society, culminating in the stay in 1815 of King Louis XVIII expelled from France. With his court he ruled from the hotel in exile. Afterward, he gave his host, as a thank you, a porcelain dessert service that is now kept in the STAM.

In the twentieth century the hotel fell into disuse. The Museum of the Hundred Days was accommodated there in 1949, but without much success.

In 1981, the building became the property of the city of Ghent, which first included an information center and later the Monuments Management Service. In the 1990s it underwent a thorough renovation. Public access was, however, very limited. In 2015, the ground floor was opened for commercial activities.