Church fire put out in Ville-Marie

A church in eastern Ville-Marie caught fire Saturday evening and 80 firefighters were called on to put it out. Saint-Eusèbe-de-Verseil church is no longer in use, and the item mentions squatters using the premises.

Update: CTV also reports the fire but calls the church Côté Pierre Vicaire Episcopal, which has some listings although little information. So I guess the old Catholic church has been used by a different denomination.

Alexis Hamel tells us the building was designed by Aristide Beaugrand-Champagne and opened after a long period of construction that started during WWI. Beaugrand-Champagne also designed St Michael’s on St-Viateur – a radically different building, constructed around the same time – and the lookout chalet on Mount Royal.