Following the opinion in favour of protection given by the Regional Commission for Heritage and Sites (CRPS) meeting on June 18, 2015, to the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs, Jean-François Cordet, Prefect of the Nord – Pas-de Calais, Prefect of the North signed on December 23, 2015 the inscription order for the following monument:
Dunkerque Civil Hospital in Rosendaël is inscribed in full for the administration building, the chapel, the concrete shelter and the walls and gates of fence, and for their facades and roofs the rest of the buildings. This building of the hinge of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (1898-1910) is a testimony of the hospitable architecture of pavilion type whose disappearance accelerates with the constraints of modern medicine. It is a rationalist work and a discreet manifesto of the architecture of regionalist tradition due to the Tourquenian architect Jean-Baptiste Maillard. This one plays to Rosendaël a subtle score, tinged with Flemish reminiscences in materials and their implementation, and modesty that resonates with the urban history of the city whose origins as a suburb of Dunkirk fishermen subject to military laws are very simple. Maillard managed to strike a balance between forces that might seem antagonistic by composing a plan with deceptive symmetry that combines the precepts of composition learned at the École des Beaux-Arts and the real needs of services.
Protected monuments are monitored by the Regional Conservation of Historic Monuments (Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs).