Montréal — Churches, offices and the railway city

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Montréal, Canada · 36 places documented
Montréal — Churches, offices and the railway city

Montréal holds 36 places documented in this archive, among them 1000 Sherbrooke West, Aldred Building and Architects' Building (Montreal).

What this page is

This page gathers what Cultural Heritage Online documents in Montréal, Canada: the entries are the ones already published, each with its own sources, its position and its photographs. It is the shortest way to everything we hold in the city, and it is updated as the archive grows.

Key facts

  • Country: Canada
  • Region: Quebec
  • Places in this archive: 36
  • Centre of the documented entries: 45.5081°N, -73.5677°E

Places documented in Montréal

  • 1000 Sherbrooke West — A 28-storey Brutalist tower in Montreal where the Montreal Protocol, history's most successful environmental treaty, was signed in 1987.
  • Aldred Building — A limestone skyscraper that steps back toward the sky like a small Manhattan transplanted onto a seventeenth-century square.
  • Architects' Building (Montreal) — A 17-story Art Deco office tower designed by Ross and Macdonald in 1930–31.
  • Atwater Market — An Art Deco market hall in Montreal's Saint-Henri neighbourhood, opened 1933, blending butchers and bakery indoors with outdoor farmers' sta
  • Bens De Luxe Delicatessen & Restaurant — A legendary Jewish delicatessen that operated for 98 years (1908–2006), Bens De Luxe Delicatessen & Restaurant was Montreal's iconic destina
  • Church of St. John the Evangelist (Montreal) — Montreal's rare Anglo-Catholic parish, the last in Quebec to maintain High Church worship in the tradition of the Canadian Book of Common Pr
  • Dominion Square Building, Montreal — Canada’s biggest office building of 1930 hid a second idea inside: a two-level shopping gallery with the city’s first escalators — the seed
  • Écomusée du fier monde — A community ecomuseum in Montreal's Centre-Sud neighbourhood dedicated to the industrial heritage and working-class history of the region.
  • Gilles Hocquart Building — An imposing early twentieth-century Montreal landmark in Viger Square, named for the French colonial intendant who preserved New France's ar
  • Habitat 67 — A modular housing complex of stacked concrete forms designed by Moshe Safdie for Expo 67, Habitat 67 remains a Montreal architectural landma
  • Hôpital de Verdun — An Art Deco general hospital in Verdun, Montreal, designed by Alphonse Venne and built 1930–1932, still serving patients today.
  • Linton Apartments — A beaux-arts apartment tower in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, completed in 1908, featuring a distinctive terracotta and baked-clay facade.
  • Maison de Radio-Canada — Montreal's French-language broadcasting headquarters, Maison de Radio-Canada operates studios and transmission for Société Radio-Canada's ne
  • McLennan Library Building — A major library at McGill University in downtown Montreal housing the largest branch of McGill's academic collection in the humanities and s
  • Montreal Botanical Garden — A sprawling 75-hectare Montreal sanctuary recognized as one of the world's most important botanical gardens, designated a National Historic
  • Montreal Central Station — Canada's second-busiest rail hub, Montreal Central Station has welcomed nearly 11 million passengers annually since 1943, serving the Quebec
  • Montreal Clock Tower — A 45-metre Art Deco clock tower in Montreal's Old Port, completed in 1922 and dedicated to seamen lost in World War I. Its four translucent
  • Montreal Eaton Centre — A 1990 downtown Montreal shopping and office complex honouring Canada's iconic Eaton's department store, merged with an adjacent mall in 201
  • Montreal Masonic Memorial Temple — An elegant 1930 Beaux-Arts masonic temple in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, designated a National Historic Site of Canada for its refined ar
  • Montreal Star Building — A three-part newspaper complex in Old Montreal, home to the Montreal Star until 1979, now operating as the Westin Montreal hotel.
  • Mount Royal Chalet — A French Beaux Arts pavilion built as Depression-era relief near the summit of Mount Royal, offering commanding views of Montreal's downtown
  • Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal) — A Gothic Revival masterpiece in Old Montreal with a jewel-toned interior, ornate carvings, and a celebrated 1891 pipe organ. Ranked the 6th
  • Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Université de Montréal — A university in a single building: Cormier’s pale tower on the mountain’s north slope took fifteen years, one Depression and a world war to
  • Place Bonaventure — A monumental 1967 mixed-use complex in Downtown Montreal that ranked as the world's second-largest commercial building at completion, remark
  • Saint-Esprit-de-Rosemont Church — A striking Art-deco Roman Catholic church in Montreal's Rosemont neighbourhood, completed 1933, designed by Joseph-Égilde-Césaire Daoust—one
  • Saint-Jean-Berchmans Church — A Roman Catholic parish church in Montreal's Petite-Patrie neighbourhood, anchoring community and spiritual life on Rosemont Boulevard since
  • Saint-Sulpice Library — Canada's first French-language library, designed by Eugène Payette in Beaux-Arts style and opened in 1917 on Montreal's Saint-Denis Street.
  • SAQ, wine shop — The Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) operates the network of wine and spirits retail outlets across the province of Quebec, Canada, with
  • Square-Victoria–OACI station — A 1967 Montreal Metro station on the Orange Line, located in Ville-Marie near the Quartier international and briefly the line's original ter
  • St Jax Montréal — An Anglican church in downtown Montreal serving as a place of worship and community gathering on Sainte-Catherine Street West.
  • St. James United Church (Montreal) — A Gothic Revival sanctuary in downtown Montreal, St. James United Church showcases a Casavant Frères organ and earned National Historic Site
  • St. Patrick's Basilica, Montreal — A Roman Catholic minor basilica on Montreal's René-Lévesque Boulevard, recognized by Pope John Paul II in 1988 as a site of spiritual signif
  • Sun Life Building, Montreal — The Sun Life Building on Dorchester Square in Montreal is a monument of empire and commerce on an almost incomprehensible scale — its final
  • Van Horne Mansion — A classical greystone mansion on Montreal's Sherbrooke Street, home to Canadian Pacific Railway president Sir William Cornelius Van Horne fr
  • Wilson Chambers Building — A rare Gothic Revival commercial building in Old Montreal (1868–69), blending Victorian style with Second Empire details—designated a Nation
  • York Theatre (Montreal) — A 1938 Art Deco cinema and mixed-use complex in Montreal designed by Perry, Luke and Little, with acclaimed interior murals by Kenneth Hensl

Sources

The entries listed above are the source of the counts, the names and the position on this page.

Editorial text © Cultural Heritage Online, 2026. No hero image in this first build: an image of the city is added only with an author and a verified licence.

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