{"id":455,"date":"2008-01-07T00:26:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T04:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=455"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:30:11","slug":"once-upon-a-time-st-louis-square-had-a-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/01\/07\/once-upon-a-time-st-louis-square-had-a-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Once upon a time, St. Louis Square had a basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bibnum2.banq.qc.ca\/bna\/massic\/high\/7-62-a.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/basin1.jpg' alt='basin11.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Square, often known as Carr\u00e9 St-Louis (though this is, to the surprise of many, actually an anglicism), is one of Montreal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/gps\/one?public_place_id=914\">greatest public spaces<\/a>. A traditional Victorian park, ringed by beautiful old greystone rowhouses and villas, it first came into existence as a reservoir in 1851. In 1880, the reservoir was drained and the square as we now know it was built, complete with walking paths and a fountain. <\/p>\n<p>Except that wasn&#8217;t entirely the case. The beautiful fountain that now stands in the middle of the square, serving as a central focus for all of its activity, once found itself in the middle of a much larger basin of water. In one newspaper illustration from 1902, the basin appears to cover the entire central section of the park. It has been converted into a summer wading pool for children, who frolic in the water as their mothers, dressed in long dark frocks, promenade around the square under the shade of parasols. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure when the basin was redeveloped, but it continued to exist as recently as 1943, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/portal\/page?_pageid=98,1483573&#038;_dad=portal&#038;_schema=PORTAL\">one photo showing workers improving the basin&#8217;s drainage system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bibnum2.banq.qc.ca\/bna\/massic\/high\/7-64-f.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/basin4.jpg' alt='basin4.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bibnum2.banq.qc.ca\/bna\/massic\/high\/7-62-d.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/basin3.jpg' alt='basin31.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bibnum2.banq.qc.ca\/bna\/massic\/high\/7-62-b.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/basin2.jpg' alt='basin21.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/st-louis-squares-old-basin\/\">Crossposted from Urbanphoto<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Square, often known as Carr\u00e9 St-Louis (though this is, to the surprise of many, actually an anglicism), is one of Montreal&#8217;s greatest public spaces. 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