{"id":2154,"date":"2009-02-26T15:26:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/02\/26\/photo-du-jour-maison-louis-hippolyte-lafontaine\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:33:15","slug":"photo-du-jour-maison-louis-hippolyte-lafontaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/02\/26\/photo-du-jour-maison-louis-hippolyte-lafontaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo du Jour &#8211; Maison Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/3274947029\/\" title=\"Maison Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3493\/3274947029_9dd839235e.jpg\" alt=\"Maison Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the residence of Prime Minister Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, this house was declared a historical monument in 1987 which effectively saved it from being demolished along with the rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overdale\">overdale neighbourhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Montreal wants to see it made into\u00a0 some kind of museum commemorating the rocky beginnings of the Canadian Parliament. (After Lafontaine passed a bill granting amnesty to the leaders of the 1837 rebellion against British authorities, Loyalists burnt down the National Parliament &#8211; then located in Montreal &#8211; and attacked his home in 1849.)<\/p>\n<p>But the owner isn&#8217;t interested in turning his property into a history project and the government&#8217;s not coughing up the funding, so the building is likely to be &#8220;preserved&#8221; in its current state of abandonment and decay for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the residence of Prime Minister Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, this house was declared a historical monument in 1987 which effectively saved it from being demolished along with the rest of the overdale neighbourhood. Heritage Montreal wants to see it made into\u00a0 some kind of museum commemorating the rocky beginnings of the Canadian Parliament. 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