J.D. Gravenor at Coolopolis reminded us of the Queen’s Hotel, which stood at the corner of St. Jacques and Peel until it was torn down in the 1980s, replaced by a parking lot.
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My parents had their wedding reception there, or so I recall being told. Don’t think I was ever inside the place myself.
I seem to remember for some reason a sliver of the building remaining for years afterward. Am I thinking of the right lot?
Yes, a small piece of the building and a few scraps of masonry lay around on that lot for a long time, like a broken tooth not properly extracted.
It makes em sad to see how much Montreal’s landscape has been butchered.
I managed to perform some nocturnal guerrilla artifact rescue just before it was demolished. Items preserved were the first marble step in the circular staircase. It looks like a combination a teardrop and the yin/yang symbol and weighs about 150 lbs.
The second was part of an arched window from the back of the building.
For all I know, that could be all that’s left.
Would anyone have photos of the interior?