2. Colonial Apartments SW corner Dorch and St. Matthew. Demolished after the south side of Dorch was demolished in the mid- 1950s for widening. Street address 1806 Dorch contained at least 26 apartments.
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4. The psychedelic Western General Hospital came with two antenna-like turrets and windows that look like the architect thought patients might be forced into shooting arrows at attackers. Built in 1919 and incorporated into the old Children's Hospital which appears slated for demolition now. The windows and turrets were gone long ago though.
5. The Fraser institute Free public library was run by R.W. Boodle, librarian in 1890 at 811 Dorchester. The office tower at 625 Dorch W. now inhabits the site. Merchant Hugh Fraser willed his fortune to open a free public library "open to all honest and respectable persons" after he died in 1870. But the family fought for the money and it only got built in 1885, taking over an old school house. By 1959 it was in NDG and had Andrew Hickson's name tacked on after he donated $1 M to its coffers.
6. Church at the NE corner of Guy and Dorch.
7. Dorch and Mansfield.
8. Proposed building on Dorchester, probably never built
9. Apartment building at Dorch and St. Matthew, probably never built.
10. Unidentified building somewhere on Dorchester, taken at an unknown time. Somewhat reminiscent of the Royal George building on Bishop.
11. Franciscan Church on Dorch SE corner Chomedey was only demolished after a 2010 fire. It was built in 1893
12. Knox Church was knocked down for the Sun Life building, along with a big YMCA. This sat at the NW corner of Mansfield and Dorch.
13. SW corner St Cat and Drummond. It was knocked down and replaced with the taller Willis Pianos b building after 1910. The building to the right is still there and houses the Laser Quest and other stores.
14. Wilson Smith House at Drummond and Sherb where the Ritz Carlton Hotel now stands.
15. This one was at the NW corner of Sherbrooke and University.
16. SE corner of Drummond and St. Catherine.
17. Building demolished for the downtown YMCA.
18. The Hosmer House sat on Drummond between Dorch and St. Cat. It was built in 1906. Wrong time and place, as downtown became largely unsustainable for such structures not long later due to tax evaulations.
19. Robert Meighen's house downtown. Became the Mount Stephen Club on Drummond, west side north of St. Cat.
20. Angus House, west side of Drummond, a few doors up from Sherbrook.
21. This bucolic beaut sat at the NE corner of Park and Sherbrooke.
22. SE corner of Park and Sherbrooke. Date unknown. That's Z.A. Lambert grocery with the big awning.
23. The American House sat on Drummond, west side, above St. Catherine, somewhere around where the Drummond Medical building now sits.
24. Miss Edgar's and Cramps School girls private school sat the east side of Guy and Lincoln when it opened in 1909, with 70 studnets, called Edgar's School. It stayed there until 1949.
25. Mountain and Dorch.
26. Original MAAA at Mansfield and De Maisonneuve from about 1881 to 1905 when it moved to its current location on Peel.
27. Northwest corner Overdale and Lucien L'Allier. The St. Andrew's Home went up around 1890. 403 Aqueduct, as the building was then located, sat far enough from the corner of Overdale to build a couple of industrial buildings betwixt. So by 1920 Royal Sponging and International Braid sat next door, with Guaranteed Pure Milk soon taking over that corner. Three residential buildings flanked it on the Dorchester side. It was gone by 1930.
28 Up at the top of Drummond, 3655, now sits that round McGill medicine building. But railway baron Duncan McIntyre once called it home with his mansion known as Craguie. It went up in the 1880s and went down in 1930. The family donated the land to McGill who turned McIntyre Park into its current vocation in 19565.
29. St. Paul's Church sat at Dorch and Beaver Hall (SW corner) from 1867 to 1932. It moved up to where Vanier College now sits. It came with an eye-catching structure that inexplicably sticks out in front and casts shad on is door.
30 Douglas Church became the Seville Theatre at Chomedey and St. Cat, NW corner.
#15 is the Dominion College of Music, which later joined McGill.
ReplyDeletelots nice buildings gone,,thxs for posting this,many didnt know about
ReplyDelete#10 - the entrance reminded me, if vaguely, of 550 Dorchester West ..........
ReplyDeleteBeautiful...thank you for this!
ReplyDeleteHosmer House is still live and bricking (or brownstoning),in the original Square Mile, but on upper Drummond above Dr. Penfield. When the house was built Penfield/McGregor ran only between Cote des Neiges and Simpson St. and the upper reaches of Drummond, along with those of Redpath, Mountain, and Stanley were dead-ends featuring very country-like conditions. Maps as old as 1910 show the proposed extension of McGregor/Penfield through to Peel but the expropriations and construction didn't take place till 1958. East of Peel the street was called Carleton Road, the part that joined Pine Avenue by skirting the reservoir. McGill bought Hosmer House in 1969.
ReplyDeleteYou missed "Rosemont" the mansion that once stood in what is now Percy Walter's dog park at Doc Penfield and Simpson. I have read that Princess Diana's mom spent a lot of her childhood there.
ReplyDeleteAnyone knows the name of the mini hotel on SE corner of Dorchester and Lucien L'Allier that was there until.2001?
ReplyDelete#29: The church was moved next to Cégep Saint-Laurent and not Vanier College which is just further north up Ste-Croix Blvd in Ville Saint-Laurent borough.
ReplyDelete#24 is Samuel Carsley's house on east side Guy between Sherbrooke and DeMaisonneuve.
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