IN033 |
420, rue de La Gauchetière ouest;
| Firm/Partnership: |
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Ross & MacFarlane |
| Building Type: |
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light manufacturing |
| Materials: |
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reinforced concrete frame, brick exterior, Montreal grey stone base, Indiana limestone trim |
| Begun: |
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1912 |
| Completed: |
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1913 |
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| View, looking north-east (1999) |
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"Read Building." 1912-1913. .
Location: Ross & Macdonald Archive. Centre canadien d'architecture/ Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Note: Folder contains a property plan (1912); preliminary and working drawings of floor and roof plans (1912); floor plan alterations for tenants (1913); elevations from Jurors St., lane, and La Gauchetière (1912); layout of clubrooms for the commercial traveller's club on eighth floor (1913); detail drawings of partitions, doors, entrance stairs (1912).
"Alterations to Read Building." 1920. .
Location: Ross & Macdonald Archive. Centre canadien d'architecture/ Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Note: Folder contains drawings for new coal chute.
"Alterations to Read Building." 1938-1940. .
Location: Ross & Macdonald Archive. Centre canadien d'architecture/ Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Note: Folder contains preliminary drawings for ninth floor (1940) and motor generating room (1929); renting plans of basement, first and typical floor plans (1940); mechanical drawings of alterations to electric lighting system, transformer room details, riser diagrams (1938).
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