Eugène Van Dievoet is the son of Ernest Jean-Louis Van Dievoet (Brussels, 16 July 1835 - Saint-Gilles, 28 August 1903) and Léonie Joséphine Françoise Most (Antwerp, 14 July 1838 - Brussels 1943), daughter of Ferdinand Gustave Adolphe Most and Ghislaine Philippine Pauline Delsart; and the grandson of Eugène Van Dievoet and Hortense Poelaert, sister of the famous architect Joseph Poelaert.[2] He is therefore the first cousin of the architect Henri Van Dievoet and the Art Nouveau decorator Gabriel Van Dievoet.
He married Léonie Caroline Catherine Quarez, born in Liège on 22 May 1865 and died in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, rue Vergote 30, on 6 December 1944, daughter of Philippe Guillaume Quarez and Catherine Lambertine Marie Ogis. They did not have children.
After his military activities, he became a civil architect (living in rue Vergote 30) and built many houses and apartment buildings in Art Deco style or Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
1922 : Schaerbeek : House of Monsieur Louis Brison, stockbroker, boulevard Reyers, 120, Bourgeois house in bricks and stone, Louis XV style.
1923 : Brussels, rue des Fabriques, n° 32, Bourgeois house in Beaux-Arts style.
1923 : Brussels, rue des Fabriques n° 32A to 36A, 5-story appartient building in Art Deco style.
1923 : Woluwe-Saint-Lambert : rue Vergote 30 (previously n° 14 in Schaerbeek),[5] personal home of the architecte, Bourgeois house in eclectic style and of Beaux-Arts inspiration.
^Bulletin de la Société Royale d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, 2 March 1936, New member, Eugène Van Dievoet, engineer, 14, rue Vergote. (n° 14 since became n° 30).
^Archives Communales de Schaerbeek/Urbanisme 273-14.
^Archives Communales de Schaerbeek/Urbanisme 273-14.