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28-532: Place Viger was designed by Bruce Price for the Canadian Pacific Railway , and was built near what was then the central core of Montreal, in proximity to the financial district , the city hall , the port and the court house. The mayor of Montreal, Raymond Préfontaine , strongly encouraged its construction in an area central to the French Canadian élites, in contrast to the rival Windsor Hotel to

56-475: A Romanesque Revival style for the building. Price had to submit four versions of his plans to satisfy the treasurer of CPR, before the project was accepted. It was constructed at a cost of $ 300,000 CAD , and the first trains departed February 4, 1889. It was known as the Windsor Street Station, named for the street on which it was located, Windsor Street (today Peel Street ). It was expanded for

84-562: A new École des métiers du tourisme (a school of tourism). In 2004, the Borough of Ville-Marie announced that it would restore what remains of the nearby public gardens, by replacing much of the concrete in Viger Square with trees, paths and other soft landscaping. Place Viger was sold in 2005 to a developer who intended to convert the building to apartments and a new hotel. However, the developer suffered financial difficulties and finally resold

112-624: A partner. Following a brief study trip to Europe, he opened an office in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania , where he practiced from 1873 to 1876. He settled in New York City in 1877, where he worked on a series of domestic projects. These culminated in the design and layout of the exclusive 7,000-acre planned community of Tuxedo Park (1885–86), created by Pierre Lorillard IV . The striking buildings Price designed there, with their severe geometry, compact massing and axial plans, were highly influential in

140-572: A provincial historic monument in 2009. The walls are gray limestone from a quarry in Montreal. Outside, the columns reach up to 2.1 metres (6.9 ft) wide. In 1887, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) began to build a railway station in Montreal, which would serve as its headquarters, three years after the completion of the Dalhousie Station in 1884. The Windsor Station project was entrusted to New York City architect Bruce Price , who chose

168-684: Is most identified with), as well as the first Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, and many other hotels and stations. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (1890) and belonged to the Architectural League of New York . In 1900, he entered into a partnership with French architect Jules Henri de Sibour , who had earlier worked in his office. The firm continued to use the name "Bruce Price & de Sibour" until 1908, five years after Price's death. In 1871, Price married Josephine Lee,

196-865: Is new, incredibly new." Among the Manhattan office buildings he designed were the American Surety Building , the St. James Building, the Bank of the Metropolis and the International Bank. He also collaborated with sculptor Daniel Chester French on the Richard Morris Hunt Memorial (1898) in Central Park . He designed a lecture hall and a dormitory at Yale University . His grandest residential commission

224-654: The Canadian Pacific Railway , including Windsor Station in Montreal and Château Frontenac in Quebec City. Price was born in Cumberland, Maryland , the son of William and Marian Bruce Price. He studied for a short time at Princeton University . After four years of internship in the office of the Baltimore architects Niernsee & Neilson (1864–68), he began his professional work in Baltimore with Ephraim Francis Baldwin as

252-644: The CP route north of the St. Lawrence River continued to use Windsor Station until 1984. Amtrak 's daily Montreal-New York City train (the Adirondack ) continued to use Windsor Station until 1986. Both the dayliners and the Adirondack were switched to Central Station. Local services to Ottawa via Montebello and to Mont-Laurier , both of which had been transferred from CPR to Via, continued to use Windsor Station until they were cancelled in 1981. After intercity passenger service

280-444: The architect's idea was to fit buildings with the surrounding woods, and the gate-lodge and keep were built of graystone with as much moss and lichen as possible. The shingled cottages were stained with the color of the woods—russets and grays and dull reds—ugly to the taste of a quarter century later, though this treatment did much to neutralize the newness of the buildings—Old World and tradition-haunted as it looks, it

308-553: The architectural profession. Eight of Price's houses – including five from Tuxedo Park – were among the one hundred buildings selected for George William Sheldon 's landmark survey of American domestic architecture: Artistic Country-Seats (1886–87). The most famous of these, the Pierre Lorillard V cottage ("Cottage G"), though demolished and now known only through photographs, remains an icon of American architecture. Price's daughter wrote in 1911: "In beginning Tuxedo,

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336-467: The city's Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station, and served as the headquarters of CPR from 1889 to 1996. It is bordered by Avenue des Canadiens-de-Montréal to the north, Peel Street to the east, Saint Antoine Street to the south and the Bell Centre to the west. Windsor Station was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1975, and was designated a Heritage Railway Station in 1990, and

364-640: The daughter of a Wilkes-Barre coal baron. They had two children: Emily Price Post , who became a novelist and the American authority on etiquette , and William, who died in infancy. Price is buried, along with his wife and son, in Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Windsor Station (Montreal) Windsor Station is a former railway station in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . It used to be

392-630: The eastern end of CPR's Westmount Subdivision. It served as CP's downtown west end train terminus. Its counterpart downtown east end terminus was Place Viger . Windsor Station also housed the headquarters of CPR and its parent company Canadian Pacific Limited until, after a corporate restructuring in the mid-1990s, the railway abandoned or sold most of its trackage east of Montreal and focused its activities in Western Canada . In 1996, CP moved its headquarters to Gulf Canada Square in Calgary . Since 1993,

420-756: The first time from 1900 to 1903, and again from 1910 to 1913 by Canadian architects. The third expansion, in 1916, included a fifteen-storey tower which dramatically altered Montreal's skyline. The project was entrusted to the firm of brothers Edward and William Maxwell . Windsor Station formed an integral component of Dominion Square as a diffuser of passenger traffic and as a central terminus for other modes of transportation. The building skirted Windsor Street (today Peel Street) and Osborne Street (today Avenue des Canadiens-de-Montréal ) between Donegani (located halfway between Osborne Street and Saint Antoine Street ). The building had four floors up to Osborne Street and five floors at street-level on Donegani Street because of

448-585: The property in 2012. In May 2014, the new owner, real estate developer Jesta along with partners, announced a $ 250 million mixed-use redevelopment plan for the complex, including residential and office space. In September of that same year, software provider Lightspeed announced that it would be moving its Montreal offices to the Viger complex. Lightspeed moved into the Viger castle in April 2015. Bruce Price Bruce Price (December 12, 1845 – May 29, 1903)

476-440: The railway station in its lower levels and a luxurious hotel on the upper floors. Place Viger enjoyed an enviable setting adjacent to the gardens of Viger Square, allowing both railway travellers and hotel guests to stroll along the garden paths. The shifting of Montreal's commercial core to the north-west, and the onset of the economic depression of the 1930s, proved disastrous for Place Viger. The hotel closed in 1935. In 1951,

504-514: The railway station was also closed, and the building was sold to the City of Montreal. The interiors were gutted and transformed into nondescript office space, and the building was renamed Édifice Jacques-Viger . The Viger Square gardens were destroyed in the 1970s to allow for the construction of the Autoroute Ville-Marie highway . After the highway was completed, although a new Viger Square

532-512: The slope of the terrain. In July 1970, CPR announced its plans to demolish Windsor Station and build a 60-storey office building on the site. The building, which was going to cost C$ 250 million, was to be designed by the same architects as New York City 's World Trade Center . After several delays the project was abandoned. Via Rail was created in 1978 and took over the responsibility for operating intercity passenger trains of both Canadian National CN and CPR. During Via's first months there

560-622: The structure is no longer connected to the rail network. It was sold by CP to Cadillac Fairview in 2009 (thus removing it from the jurisdiction of the Heritage Railway Stations Act; consequently, it was classified as a provincial heritage site that same year). Also located in the station is the Canadian Railway Office of Arbitration. The rest of Windsor Station has been redeveloped into an office complex and houses some restaurants and cafés. The interior concourse, which

588-540: The west, which was perceived to cater to the city's anglophone classes. The rail station served as the terminus of the CP passenger rail lines running into downtown Montreal from the north and east. It replaced the older Dalhousie Station . Its counterpart terminus for CP passenger rail lines running into downtown Montreal from the south and west was Windsor Station . Constructed in the French château-style common to railway hotels built by Canadian Pacific, Place Viger housed

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616-763: Was Georgian Court , the neo- Georgian estate of George Jay Gould I in Lakewood, New Jersey . Price invented, patented, and built the parlor bay-window cars for the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Boston and Albany Railroad . This work prompted the Canadian Pacific Railways to consider his portfolio. He designed the Château Frontenac in Quebec City for the Canadian Pacific (arguably the structure Price

644-545: Was an American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style . The stark geometry and compact massing of his cottages in Tuxedo Park, New York , influenced Modernist architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright and Robert Venturi . He also designed Richardsonian Romanesque institutional buildings, Beaux-Arts mansions, and Manhattan skyscrapers. In Canada, he designed Châteauesque railroad stations and grand hotels for

672-645: Was called Terminus Windsor, but this was changed to reduce confusion with the original station building and to indicate a link to the Lucien-L'Allier metro (subway) station which is below the station building. It is still possible to walk through the Bell Centre to connect with Windsor Station and the Lucien L'Allier metro station. Windsor Station, and now Lucien-L'Allier Station (known in French as 'Terminus Lucien-L'Allier'), are at

700-556: Was created on the concrete deck covering the highway, it was poorly designed, desolate and underused, despite sculptural works by artists including Charles Daudelin . For decades, the old Place Viger station sat isolated and neglected, a striking historic building surrounded by parking lots and concrete. In 2003, the Commission scolaire de Montréal , the City of Montreal and the Quebec provincial government announced that Place Viger would house

728-419: Was located immediately west of Windsor Station on the trackage which served the station platforms, resulting in the historic station being severed from the rail network. The Molson Centre opened its doors on March 16, 1996, and the new Lucien-L'Allier Station was opened at the western end of the arena structure to replace the now-closed suburban train terminal at Windsor Station. Until 2001, the new train station

756-580: Was no operational change for CPR or CN trains, as they used their respective crews, routes, equipment and stations. However, by the summer of 1979, the integration process began, and most of Via's former CP trains that used Windsor Station were consolidated at CN's Central Station , including CP's former transcontinental passenger services such as The Atlantic Limited and The Canadian , both of which were also renamed to be bilingually appropriate. Via Dayliners ( Budd Rail Diesel Cars ) operating between Windsor Station and St. Sacrement station in Quebec City via

784-636: Was removed, Windsor Station continued to be a commuter rail terminal for the STCUM's (now the RTM's ) Montréal/Dorion-Rigaud suburban train (now Vaudreuil-Hudson line). In 1999, service to Blainville (now Saint-Jérôme line) was added, and in 2001, service to Delson (now Candiac line). In 1993, construction began on the Molson Centre (now Bell Centre ), a hockey arena to replace the Montreal Forum . The arena site

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