Industrial Architecture Montreal 
 
 

 

IN014

  Robert Mitchell Co./Montreal Brass Works

350-360, rue St-Antoine ouest;

Architect: Boxer, Frederick (Francois) Nepheau
Building Type: metalworking plant
Begun: 1862
Alterations: 1946
Restoration: 1948
Restoration Architect: Jean Crevier (1948)
Demolished: n.d.
Note: Originally, brassfounders and finishers, coppersmiths, electric light finishers (1900). After the departure of Mitchell in 1893, the building was occupied by various tenants, including Troy Steam Laundry and the printing facilities for the journal The Witness.

 

Images:
Advertisement from 1916; from Construction 9:11 (Nov. 1916) 50.

Sources:

Industries of Canada. City of Montreal Historical and Descriptive Review. Montréal: Historical Publishing Co., 1886. : 167
Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections. McGill University Library.

Special number of the Dominion Illustrated devoted to Montreal, the Commercial Metropolis of Canada. Montréal: Sabiston Lithographic and Pub. Co., 1891. : 133
Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections. McGill University Library.
Visuals: exterior rendering.
Note: Description of building, and use.

 

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