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The Castle Building was home to a Chapters bookstore.

The Castle Building is an office building in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its address is 1410 Stanley Street on the corner of Saint Catherine Street West in Downtown Montreal. It is owned by [1] Gold Castle Holdings Limited. The building is now home to a Victoria's Secret outlet and was previously home to a Chapters bookstore, which closed in 2014.

Montreal City in Quebec, Canada

Montreal is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada. Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It has a distinct four-season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold, snowy winters.

Quebec Province of Canada

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Saint Catherine Street Street in Montreal, Canada

Saint Catherine Street is the primary commercial artery of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It crosses the central business district from west to east, beginning at the corner of Claremont Avenue and de Maisonneuve Boulevard in the city of Westmount, traversing the borough of Ville-Marie, and ending on Notre-Dame Street just east of Viau Street in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.

Named for the Castle Tea Company and erected on the site of the former Emmanuel Congregational Church, it was designed by Montreal architecture firm Ross and Macdonald, and was completed in 1927. [2] [3] It has 11 floors. [3] The building's facade material is brick and its facade system is applied masonry. Its architectural style is Neoclassical. [4]

Ross and Macdonald was one of Canada's most notable architecture firms in the early 20th century. Based in Montreal, Quebec, the firm originally operated as a partnership between George Allen Ross and David MacFarlane from 1907 to 1912. MacFarlane withdrew from the firm in 1912, and Robert Henry Macdonald became a partner.

Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century. In its purest form, it is a style principally derived from the architecture of classical antiquity, the Vitruvian principles, and the work of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio.

Tenants include postproduction company SHED and digital agency TP1.

The Castle Building was awarded the Heritage Emeritus Award in 2005 by the City of Montreal and Heritage Montreal.

Heritage Montreal is a Canadian non-profit organization that is dedicated to the protection of the architectural, historic, natural and cultural heritage of Greater Montreal. It was founded by architectural activist and Canadian Centre for Architecture founder Phyllis Lambert in 1975. It was preceded by the creation of Save Montreal, a volunteer group co-founded by Michael Fish, formed after the controversial demolition of the Van Horne Mansion.

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References

  1. ↑ "Castle Building Brochure" (PDF). Gold Castle Holdings Limited. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  2. ↑ Wilkins, Robert N. (8 August 2014). "Block of Montreal's Ste-Catherine St. serves up slice of Canadiana". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  3. 1 2 Castle Building at IMTL.org
  4. ↑ "Edifice Castle". Emporis . Retrieved 26 November 2011.

Coordinates: 45°29′57″N73°34′26″W / 45.4993°N 73.5740°W / 45.4993; -73.5740

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