GDS: When the gates were built they did in fact line up with McGill College. However, at some point after that (70s?) the city decided to demolish the entire west side of the street in order to create a new grand boulevard, complete with really wide sidewalks. Originally, the northbound lanes of the street were where much of the sidewalk on the east side is today.
Oh! you mean with McGill college street. I had not noticed that. Now I’m going to start having nightmares about it :(. But it would be much worse if it didn’t line up with the building though.
MBH – I was aware of the city flaw. At the same time they also tried to set a building limit so that all the buildings on McGill College would be the same height creating a tunnel like view. That wasn’t respected either.
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I always found it stupid that the gates don’t line up with the street
at the top of this street past the gates is an urn in a statue thing, and it contains the ashes of james Mcgill. Creepy, if you ask me.
There’s a nice 360 degree panoramic photo of the gates at http://montreal360.ca/architecture/mcgill-university-campus-main-entrance.html (or http://tinyurl.com/msh7dx). You click on the photo (there, of course) to open an interactive 3D version of it that you can pan and tilt to look around, toogling fullscreen on makes it even better to see.
Why would it be “stupid”? I don’t understand.
GDS: When the gates were built they did in fact line up with McGill College. However, at some point after that (70s?) the city decided to demolish the entire west side of the street in order to create a new grand boulevard, complete with really wide sidewalks. Originally, the northbound lanes of the street were where much of the sidewalk on the east side is today.
Oh! you mean with McGill college street. I had not noticed that. Now I’m going to start having nightmares about it :(. But it would be much worse if it didn’t line up with the building though.
MBH – I was aware of the city flaw. At the same time they also tried to set a building limit so that all the buildings on McGill College would be the same height creating a tunnel like view. That wasn’t respected either.