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Kate 09:27 on 2020-07-15 Permalink Reply  

• Ian 12:02 on 2020-07-15 Permalink

  Interesting, I remember when it became a bed & breakfast, and I had wondered why it went out of business. I’d love to learn more about the history of this building.

• Ephraim 13:06 on 2020-07-15 Permalink

  https://imtl.org/edifices/Maison-Raoul-A-Girard.php

• Ephraim 13:14 on 2020-07-15 Permalink

  And http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/siteofficieldumontroyal/batiment-residentiel/4351-avenue-esplanade for more information.

• Alison Cummins 17:43 on 2020-07-15 Permalink

  I was told a sculptor lived there.

• Ian 18:22 on 2020-07-15 Permalink

  They may have meant the big house a bit further south, the home and studio of Vaillancourt, husband of the famous Suzanne from the Cohen song

• Michael Black 18:29 on 2020-07-15 Permalink

  If a sculptor lived there, maybe it’s a busy street. Armand Vaillancourt, the sculptor, lives on the street, but I thought lower down. Right now I can’t remember if I saw an address number, maybe recognized that I’d seen him on the street. One year at least, his yard (I think it was outside rather than in) was used for a Fringe Festival show.

  So I think a few houses down from Marie-Anne.

  Mark Achbar lived briefly in the block above Marie-Anne, maybe in the duplex to the left. But that was fairly long ago, and has no relevance to the building, other than the street seems to have had its share of “famous people”.

• curious 21:08 on 2020-07-15 Permalink

  The sculptor Armand Vaillancourt does live down the street, at 4211. That building previously housed the Herzlia Hebrew High School.