Telling storeys
- Here, from before the days of Le This and Le That, is a list of local apartment buildings from 1910.
- Kent (117 University)
- King Edward (8 Oldfield Ave.)
- La Fayette (4378 Western Ave., Westmount) Acadia Flats (83 Sherbrooke W.)
- Agincourt (88 Green Ave.)
- The Alexandrea (36 Drummond)
- Baronscourt (74 Greene Ave.)
- Bellevue (58 Metcalfe)
- Belmont (225 Sherbrooke W.)
- Benhurst (10 Bayle)
- Bishop's Court (147 Bishop)
- Blenheim (4114 Western Ave., Westmount)
- Burnside (40 McGill College Ave.)
- Brighton (51 Mayor)
- Camber (Tupper)
- Canterbury (64 Durocher)
- Carleton (242 Sherbrooke W.)
- Caroline (22 Cote des Neiges Rd.)
- Cavendish (250 Sherbrooke W.)
- Chesterfield (19 Chesterfield Ave.)
- Colonial (802 Dorchester W.)
- Councillor Terrace (129 City Councillors)
- Denbigh (4123 Western Ave.)
- Derling Court (4160 Sherbrooke, Westmount)
- Dominion Square (53 Metcalfe)
- Dorchester (875 Dorchester W.)
- Essex (1 Essex Ave.)
- Frontenac (442 Sanguinet)
- Grosvenor (756 Shebrooke W.)
- Hampton Court (355 Mountain)
- Harcourt (88 Greene Ave.)
- Hope Avenue (17 Hope Ave.)
- Hutchison (2477 Hutchison)
- Imperial (15 Hope Av.)
- Inman (323 Selby Ave., Westmount)
- Jeffrey (154 Durocher)
- Kenilworth (24 Durocher)
- Kensington (4410 St. Catherine W.)
- Kent (1735-1745 Hutchison)
- Lefroy (210 Hutchison)
- Linton (731 Sherbrooke W.)
- Lochinvar (100 Crescent)
- Mackay (54 Overdale Ave.)
- Majestic (17 Hope Ave.)
- Marlborough (210 Milton)
- Metcalfe (143 Metcalfe)
- Metcalfe (109 Cote St. Antoine Rd.)
- Mount Stephen (438-440 Mount Stephen Ave., Westmount)
- Murray (399 Mackay)
- New Sherbrooke (670 Sherbrooke W.)
- New Tupper (1005 Tupper)
- Oldfield (Oldfield Ave.)
- Outremont (St. Catherinen Rd., near Villeneuve W.)
- Oxenden (20 Oxenden Ave.)
- Phillips (102 St. Mark)
- Pine Ave. (276 Pine Ave. W.)
- Prince (500 Guy)
- Prince Arthur (709 St. Urbain)
- Rexington (2475 Hutchison)
- Richmond (86 Union Ave.)
- Roosevelt (4474 St. Catherine, Westmount)
- Roseberry (4162 Sherbrooke, Westmount)
- St. Louis (1950 Park Ave., corner Royale)
- St. Luke (77 St. Luke)
- Salaberry (308 Sherbrooke East)
- Salisbury (293a St. Antoine)
- San Remo (81 Durocher)
- Seymour (905 Tupper)
- Shelburne (319 Grosvenor Ave.)
- Sherbrooke (660 Sherbrooke W.)
- Shirley (4118 Western Ave., Westmount)
- Smithsonian (14 Selkirk Ave.)
- Stanley (129 and 131 Stanley)
- Staynor (19 Staynor Ave.)
- Travancore (Cedar Ave.)
- Tupper (1005 Tupper)
- Union (78 Union Ave.)
Waldorf (435-439 Grosvenor Ave., Westmount)
Hard-on-a-riffic!
ReplyDeleteSomewhere around 1913 came "The Westmount" at 4168 Sherbrooke W (corner Greene). Oddly enough, Lovell's shows it as having 3 apartments in 1913 to about 1919 when it then jumped to 4, then a few years later, back down to 3. I lived there in the 80s, and can assure you there are only 3 apts.
ReplyDeleteRiveting stuff, I know.
Nothing is says class, though, like "Le Jordache" in Chateauguay. I believe "Le Sergio Valente" is across the street.
Is there a conversion guide somewhere which easily advises as to what the pre 1920s numbers place themselves today?
ReplyDeleteNope. The new and old civic numbers are helter skelter. Best thing you can do is check the address in the Lovell guide. There you'll find the nearest cross street.
ReplyDeleteAloha Kristian
ReplyDeleteHow are you?
What is happening to old street names?
I can't make anything of the current street names in Montreal. This article made me think of the huge old apartment complex I lived next to on Sherbrooke St. It was a magnificent old complex that reminded me of the apartment complex of "Rosemary's Baby", which was current at the time about 40 years ago. Is it still there and what happen to the street names? Google has no notion of Ontario St. near that location
While at McGill I lived in a basement apartment of an old mansion one back from a Presbyterian church on Sherbrooke across the street from the Museum of Fine Arts on Ontario St. During the Vietnam War we use to demonstrate in front of the American Consulate on Ontario above a street now called Avenue Docteur-Penfield. What was the name of Doctor Penfield's street 40 years ago? I bet he never used the French spelling of Doctor.
After staring to read your Blog I finally figured out that Dorchester St. was no more. Thanks for using historical names that I can relate to.
BTW: The Presbyterian Church used to do a tasty “ Handle’s Messiah” with full orchestra and chorus every Easter. It was a wonderful time and place to live.
Bobby
Pine Avenue is the street above Dr. Penfield, whose former name is McGregor. Pine has been Pine (Av. Des Pins) since my mother was a child growing up in the now McGill ghetto.
ReplyDeleteI think you are mistaken about Ontario St.- it's nowhere near that neighborhood and I don't think it ever was. Correct me if I'm wrong, anyone.
Yes I admit I am mistaken. However I think the street name I am looking for is presently called "Avenue Du Musee" In the sixties it was called something else. Does anyone know what that was?
ReplyDeleteBTW. Thanx McGregor was the other street name I was trying to remember.
Bobby
Les rues de Montréal says that du Musée used to be called Ontario Avenue, quite distinct from Ontario Street but I suppose the duplication was one reason it got renamed in 1975.
ReplyDeleteI live in what used to be the Kent Apartments, on Hutchison. According to Lowell's Montreal Street directory, number 1735 Hutchison was a private residence; it was not part of the Kent Apartments, which are listed as 1737, 1741 and 1745 Hutchison. These are listed for the first time in 1909, and not listed in 1908.
ReplyDeleteThe street numbers (1737-1745) are misleading to the modern eye; these apartments are not far south of Sherbrooke, but are in the area known as "The Annex", just south of St. Josef. The street numbers were changed to their modern values (4837-4845) between 1927 and 1928.
Also, the "Kent Apartments" names were changed in 1932 to:
4837 Hutchison: Regent Apartments
4841 Hutchison: Rialto Apartments
4845 Hutchison: Rivoli Apartments
In 1939, the apartment names were all three became "Rialto Apartments".
Between 1974 and 1999, the three buildings variously do and do not have a name listed; but, when they do, the name is "Realto Apartments". Sometime after 1999, the buildings dropped their names.