It was built between 1852 and 1872 by Pierre Bardou, one of the founders of the JOB cigarette paper company, then transformed in the 1890s into an elegant mansion by his son-in-law Jules Pams, a politician and amateur art-lover.

Pierre Bardou bought several houses in Perpignan on the Rue Émile Zola between 1852 and 1872, where he built workshops lit by a magnificent skylight adjacent to his home, which was enlarged to become a mansion.

His sister-in-law, Henriette Amiel, moved into the mansion on 18 rue Saint-Sauveur in Perpignan to care for them.

[5] After Pierre Bardou-Job died in 1892 Pams commissioned the architect and designer Léopold Carlier to remodel the mansion to his taste.

[4] By the turn of the 20th century the Hôtel Pams was a large private museum, rivaling Perpignan's public Musée des Beaux-Arts Hyacinthe Rigaud.

The protected parts are the interior court, vestibule, stairwell, facades, roofs and interior decoration by the architects Léopold Carlier and Viggo Dorph-Petersen, and the painters Paul Gervais and Henri Gervex.

[8] Due to the sloping ground, the rear of the first floor above the street entrance opens onto a ground-level inner court lined on two sides by a portico with alternating Ionic columns and sections of wall.

In the main court a ceramic frieze with floral decoration on the wall provides a background to a bronze statue of a young flute player.