History of the building consumed by fire
Metro looked into the history of the building destroyed in the fire two weeks ago, known to architects as the William Watson Ogilvie building. The image shown is horizontally stretched, though. It looked like this, photo taken from the building file on the Vieux Montréal site.
shawn 10:01 on 2023-03-31 Permalink
I don’t think anyone wants more views above what Kate has shared but the Wikipedia Commons has a category for the building. Oh and in case anyone wants to take some snaps of it now and upload them to the Commons, that would be great: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Édifice_William-Watson-Ogilvie
Kate 11:22 on 2023-03-31 Permalink
That’s a good link, shawn – thanks. I wonder if any of the Airbnb offers included that little tower at the corner. I’ve always dreamed of working in a circular room.
shawn 11:41 on 2023-03-31 Permalink
I hope someone does take some snaps before it’s all pulled down. A staggering amount of contemporary Montreal photos in Wikipedia were taken by this fellow Jean Gagnon, who I don’t know personally. I think he’s about my age and I don’t know if he is as active anymore.