Hospital Name: Hôpital du Sacre Coeur

Address: 5400 boulevard Gouin ouest, Montréal, Québec, H4J 1C5; Telephone: (514) 338-2222;Fax: (514) 338-2328

MUC Location: Montréal, Cartierville

Religious Affiliation: Catholic

Architect: Dalbé Viau & Alphonse Venne

Architectural Firm: Venne & Viau

Ground-breaking Date: 1924

Completion Date: 1925

Renovations:
1. Completion of the chapel dome:1925
2. Addition of two infirmiry (gardes-malades) wings: 1945
3. Addition of a floor for operation rooms: 1959
4. Extension at the back of the first floor for the biomedical centre: 1969
5. New emergency ward, interior renovations and room reorganization: 1970-71
6. Interior renovations: 1972
7. New wing for psychitric care and interior rearrangements of lab space: 1974
8. New wing to enclose the hyberbolic chamber and renovations to physical plant: 1980
9. Enclosure built around central stairs: 1982
10. Renovations to cytology and pathology: 1984
11. Renovations to security and emergency exits, elevators and physical plant: 1985
12. Resurfacing of the dome: 1986
13. General renovations to multiple wings: 1987
14. Renovations to geriatric ward: 1992
15. Renovations to electrophysiology and pneumology: 1995
16. Renovation of the Auditorium Emilie-Gamelin: 1997
17. Phase 2 of the centre for biomedicine: 2000

Renovation Architect: 2. Gaston Gagnier
3. Brais & Savard
5. Blais & B�langer
6. Blais & B�langer
7. Blais & B�langer
8. Blais & B�langer
9. T�trault, Parrent, Languedoc & Associates
10. T�trault, Parrent, Languedoc & Associates
11. T�trault, Parrent, Languedoc & Associates
12. T�trault, Parrent, Languedoc & Associates
13. T�trault, Parrent, Languedoc & Associates
14. Almas Mathieu
15. R�ne Ouellet
16. Tecsult
17. PNJP architects, Lemay & Associates, R�ne Ouellet

Organizing Institution: Original: Soeurs de la Charit� de la Providence
Current: Public institution with a board of directors.
One of the Universit� de Montr�al's primary research hospitals.

Capacity:
900 beds in 34 wards in 1936

Architectural Notes: The hospital was built on a unique C-shaped footprint with wings running perpendicular to the main structure. The principle feature of the fa�ade is the main chapel, transferred to office and administrative space since 1980.
Total floor area (1981)- 70 932 sq. meters
Floor area of original building (1925)- 54 441 sq. meters
Site area- 156 362 sq. meters

Floors: 6 plus 7th floor extensions on central axis

Building Footprint: C-shaped main building with five wings of varying size and form in the rear of the structure; the building is fronted by the Sacre-Coeur Chapel

Contractor: 1924-25: Ulric Boileau Ltd., Cooksville Shale and Brick Co. ltd.
1945: Concrete Construction, M. Boucher
1959: Concrete Construction
1969: Yvon Desjardins
1970-71: J. R. Cote
1978: Lalonde, Girouard and Letendre, J. H. Depuis

Material: 1. Internal: Steel reinforced concrete structure, visible around entrances and balcony sections.
2. External (superficial): Red brick with conrete and stone detailing on chapel and around windows and entrances.
3. Interior: The original interior was a mix of terra-cotta and plaster. Recent additions have added in-ceiling lights, wood panel finishing and new tile flooring to parts of the hospital.

Construction Notes: The internal steel and concrete structure is extended at the extremities of each wing, beyond the superficial fa�ade, to provide balcony space on each floor. Balconies are not particularly ornamented but they do illustrate the significant mass of the hospital's internal concrete lattice.

Bibliography: Communauté Urbaine de Montréal/Service de la planification du territoire.Architecture civile I: Les Édifices Publics. Répertoire d'architecture traditionelle sur le territoire de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal, 1981.

Seguin, Normand (ed.).Atlas Historique du Québec: L'institution médicale. Québec: Les Presses de L'Université Laval, 1998.

The Contract Record and Engineering Review, 40 no. 23 (6 June, 1928)

Choquette, Danielle.L'Institut de réadaptation de Montréal: 50 ans d'histoire. Montréal: Institut de réadaptation de Montréal, 1999.

Footnotes: A more complete list of hospital renovations is available through the Blackader Lauterman Library, McGill University and the planning and development department of the H�pital Sacre-Coeur.

Affiliated Buildings:
Sanatorium Prevost