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A.J.C. Paine
The three buildings that currently serve McGill's athletic needs are all located in Macdonald Park, an area of land bounded on the south by Pine Avenue, on the west by University Street, and to the north and east by Mount Royal. This parcel of land was donated to McGill in 1911 by Sir William Macdonald, one of the University's most charitable friends. In 1939, the Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Gymnasium-Armoury was constructed on the north side of Pine Avenue, just east of University Street. Sir Arthur Currie, for whom the gym was named, had been a highly-decorated general in World War I, after which he became principal of McGill from 1920 to 1933, the year of his death. The Gymnasium was paid for in part by a posthumous donation from Lord Strathcona, a long-standing benefactor of McGill, and in part by the Graduate Society which had been raising money and planning for years for this facility. In 1935, the Society held a competition for the best gym design among architectural graduates of McGill; the winner was commissioned to build the Gymnasium. Work on this brick structure was advanced rapidly with the onset of World War II in 1939. Due to its function and the limited funds at the time, no ornamentation was to be found throughout the structure and the swimming pool was not started. The gym ceiling is supported by trusses so that no pillars disturb the floor space. In 1947, the gym was extended and the swimming pool and the Memorial Hall were installed. The marble-floored Hall contains paintings of McGill's history and a wall of the names of all the graduates who gave their lives in the two World Wars. In 1994, an indoor track and tennis courts were added to the east end of the Gymnasium complex by the firm of Werlman and Guy.

Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, and Sise (ARCOP)
The new University Centre, built on McTavish Street in 1965, replaced the old Student Union Building on Sherbrooke Street, a gift of Sir William Macdonald that now houses the McCord Museum. The Centre, three times as large as the old Union, was designed by ARCOP, the architecture firm of Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, and Sise, who also designed the Leacock Building. The building is designed to accommodate all the offices and meeting rooms needed by McGill's vast assortment of social and cultural clubs. The main floor contains administration offices, the Student Council Chamber, the University pub, and a snack bar. The basement houses a small cafe named The Alley and various student services, such as legal aid and a travel agent. The cafeteria is on the second floor while two auditoriums, one large and one smaller, are on the third floor. The fourth floor is dedicated to club offices and meeting rooms, yet the only access to this area is by narrow staircases. The entire interior is of reinforced concrete and is quite durable. The exterior features large windows around the second storey cafeteria and prefabricated concrete panels covering the rest of the structure. Since there is only a thin strip of windows around the upper floor, the club offices do not receive much light. This building, designed with its function in mind, provides enough room for all of McGill's clubs and should continue to do so in the future.
The Stephen Leacock Building was named after Stephen Leacock, a Professor of Economics from 1901 to 1944 and a well-known Canadian humorist and author. The edifice was built in 1965 by ARCOP, a firm contributed to by Affleck, Desbarats, Dimokopoulos, Lebensold, and Sise who were also responsible for the University Centre. At this time there were many building projects in progress all over the campus because of the dramatic climb in the enrolment of the University. Many of the faculties and departments had expanded beyond their spaces and needed room to grow, including the Faculty of Arts which had outgrown its ancestral home, the Arts Building. The area chosen for the new building had been, until then, the site of the McGill Observatory and of half of the Presbyterian College, whose remaining half is currently called Morrice Hall. The Leacock Building was originally planned as two towers, the second, which was found to be unnecessary and was never built, would have taken over the site of the remaining half of Morrice Hall, a charming Collegiate Gothic style structure. Leacock is a ten-storey concrete structure that houses, on its lower three floors, twenty-four lecture rooms ranging in capacity from 30 seats to 200, not including the massive lecture room on the first floor which seats 650 students at a time. This large auditorium has no windows in it, to provide fewer distractions, and is half underground with the seats sloping in the same direction as the natural hillside. Since all of the lecture rooms are on the lower floors, they are easily accessible to students and keep the traffic to a minimum in the upper tower which is reserved for 125 offices served by elevators. The lower floors may be entered from the third floor terrace to the west, the second floor terrace to the south, the first floor street level, or from the Arts Building which is connected to Leacock from the east by a glass-walled corridor. Stairs, similar to those on the interior, connect the levels of the terrace. The exterior is made of precast load-bearing concrete panels, each of which contains a sealed window. Concrete pillars help to support some of the projected portions of the structure, such as the protrusions over the ground floor glass walls. Care was taken to be economic with the lighting of the building and the first floor circulation passageways are lit, for the most part, by daylight which enters through the glass walls on the east and south sides. This durable structure currently houses the Departments of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Islamic Studies.

Alfred Baumgarten
In 1886, Alfred Baumgarten, a wealthy, German sugar tycoon who loved horses and the hunt, yet also donated generously to Montreal's museum and hospitals, designed a house for his family on McTavish Street. Three out of eight houses of Rupert's Terrace were demolished to create a site for the Baumgarten house. This mansion, in the Square Mile area of the city, although it possessed a rather plain exterior, was replete with detail and decoration in its sumptuous interior. One of the outstanding features of this abode was the ballroom, built for Baumgarten's daughters who had just come of age. The ceiling, from which hung several chandeliers, was supported by marble columns, the floor was built on springs to give a boost to the dancers' feet, and a minstrel's gallery at one end was suspended from the ceiling with brass cords. The Gothic Gallery, which spanned two storeys of the house, was made to resemble a German hunting lodge and was covered by an immense, amber-coloured, stained glass skylight. After Alfred Baumgarten's death in 1919, the house was occupied by his family. McGill bought it in 1926 as a residence for Sir Arthur Currie, who had just been made principal of McGill. In 1935, the house was renovated to become the McGill Faculty Club. At this time, the Gothic Gallery was split into two separate floors, the lower of which is now the main dining room, and the upper of which serves as the billiard room, still covered by the amber stained glass panels. Other than this, the structure of the building and the details of the interior have been preserved and the aura of another century still pervades the rooms.

Andrew B. Taft
Braehead was built in the English Gothic style by James Brown in 1861 for Orrin S. Wood, the manager of Allan's Montreal Telegraph Company. It is still located at the top of McTavish Street and was constructed of Montreal limestone taken from the demolished house of Simon McTavish which previously occupied the site. In 1879, Wood sold the house to Matthew H. Gault, who lived in it for many years before giving it to the army as a convalescence hospital for disabled soldiers. George H. Duggan bought Braehead in 1929 and occupied it until 1944, at which time he donated it to McGill with the proviso that he would live there until his death. In 1946, after Duggan had passed away, McGill's School of Commerce (now the Faculty of Management) moved in. Since the faculty already had possession of Purvis Hall, next door, a passage was constructed between the two houses. In 1975, Braehead underwent a general renovation and in 1977 it was allotted to the Faculty of Education which needed more room. This faculty still occupies the old Gothic mansion which has not changed its appearance much, even after so many years.

Bruce Price
In 1964, the twelve-storey tower of the Muriel V. Roscoe Wing was opened on the east side of University Street and is, to date, the last extension made to the Royal Victoria College. Durnford, Bolton, Chadwick, and Ellwood was the company entrusted with the construction of this steel-framed high-rise. The exterior of the building features precast concrete alternating with yellow brick facing, the whole interrupted regularly by plentiful windows which give a far-reaching view of the city and provide light to each room. The structure is set back from the street by a two-storey entrance hall and large lounge. It is quite efficient in its use of space, yet provides modern conveniences. The central core contains four elevators for ease of transport and flow of traffic. On each floor, fourteen rooms are located around the core, adjacent to the perimeter of the building, giving them a maximum of light. On every other floor, a warden uses two rooms, bringing the total occupancy to 156 students. There is a kitchenette and a laundry room on every second floor, reducing the use of the elevators somewhat, and a large cafeteria in the basement. Although the rooms are considerably smaller than those of Strathcona's original Hurlbatt Wing, they each have a large window, complete with tailored curtains, and all the furniture a student could need. In 1971, the Royal Victoria College, now used only as a residence, was limited to the new Roscoe Wing and Nobbs' Vaughan Wing of 1931. The older Hurlbatt Wing and the Reynolds Wing of 1948 were given to the Faculty of Music in 1971 and are its permanent home today after much recent moving. From 1904 to 1964, musical instruction had existed in the Workman Mansion, a large, nineteenth-century style abode on the northwest corner of Sherbrooke and University, purchased for this purpose by Lord Strathcona. The Music Faculty was officially recognized and named in 1920. The Workman edifice was torn down in the 1940s due to an unstable wall; the Otto Maass Chemistry Building stands on this site today. At this point the Faculty of Music temporarily moved to the Shaughnessy house on Drummond Street until a more suitable location could be found. In 1971, the two easternmost wings of RVC were given to the uprooted faculty. In 1973, the firm Bland, Lemoyne, and Shine were commissioned to give the Faculty of Music a new concert hall, named Pollack Hall after Maurice Pollack, owner of a retail store company and donor of this auditorium, capable of seating 600. This "Welcome Home" present was very much appreciated by the Faculty which had been using Redpath Hallas its auditorium since the 1950s. The Marvin Duchow Music Library, named for its organizer and first librarian, was also established in space rented from an office building at 550 Sherbrooke. Today, the Hurlbatt and Reynolds Wings of the old RVC have been renamed the Strathcona Music Building, and Queen Victoria still reigns over the steps.
In 1892, James Ross commissioned Bruce Price, a renowned American architect, who also designed McGill's Royal Victoria College and the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, to build a house for him on Peel Street on the Square Mile. Ross was an entrepreneur of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, whose interests included yachting and collecting masterpieces. As such, he was the commander of the St. Lawrence Yacht Club and, later in his life, helped to create the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The house, with its two circular turrets and larger central tower, was constructed of Credit Valley limestone and was designed in the French Chateau style. Between 1897 and 1912, Edward and William Maxwell, a pair of well-known Montreal architects, were commissioned to redesign and expand parts of Price's original work. Part of this work involved adding to the mansion an art gallery wing, a breakfast room and bedroom, and several wrought iron and carved details. In 1913, James Ross died and his son, J.K.L. Ross inherited the house and a considerable fortune. He hired the firm of Trowbridge and Livingston to expand and remodel his late father's home, giving it a more austere, Classical appearance. In 1935, having spent all of his fortune on parties, horse racing, and yachts, J.K.L. Ross went bankrupt and the house was sold for a mere $51,000. John W. McConnell bought the Ross Mansion in 1948 as a gift to McGill. At this time, it was renamed Chancellor Day Hall, after one of the University's first Chancellors, and was given to the Faculty of Law, which still occupies it today. In 1966, the firm of Bland and Lemoyne erected a six-storey, precast concrete tower just west of Chancellor Day Hall and connected to it by a corridor. This extension, which blends with the adjacent Stewart Biological Sciences Building, provided more classrooms and library space.
The Royal Victoria College, McGill's college for women, was named in honour of Queen Victoria, one of the most prominent female figures of her time. Its first, and central, wing was built by the American architect Bruce Price in 1899 at the request of Lord Strathcona, formerly Donald Smith, one of the most charitable of McGill's donors. Lord Strathcona gave the University $50,000 for the new project, and also purchased the Tiffin and Learmont properties on the northeast corner of Sherbrooke and University Streets. This provided funds and an ideal site for the new edifice, but in the process destroyed the old, nineteenth-century mansions previously located there. At the opening of the building, in 1899, a statue of the Queen, executed by Princess Louise, was presented to the College and today still sits enthroned on the steps of Strathcona's building. The original, central edifice, named the Hurlbatt Wing after the College's first warden, is of the British chateau style. Its five storeys crowned by many gables and dormers still create a fine facade on Sherbrooke Street and are supported by a steel frame covered by a layer of the grey, Montreal limestone, featured by many campus buildings. The first roof of steel and terra cotta was replaced by the present copper sheets in 1932. The building is decorated by many carvings that refer both to wisdom and to its namesake, the Queen. The interior contained eight classrooms, an assembly hall that could seat 700 students, a dining hall, and various reading and drawing rooms. It also provided housing for the warden, tutors, and fifty-two female students who comprised the original College. Each resident was given a spacious bedroom with access to a lounge shared by three people at most. Every detail of the building was designed with great care, right down to the linens and cutlery, to provide comfort to its inhabitants who were named Donaldas after the first name of Lord Strathcona. In the 1930s, the College had grown so large that it became necessary to greatly increase the number of rooms. Thus, in 1931, the four-storey Vaughan Wing was erected by Percy Nobbs, Professor of Design at the School of Architecture and a noted architect of many campus buildings,Macdonald Engineering among them. Nobbs' extension, located just west of the Hurlbatt Wing, right at the northeast corner of Sherbrooke and University, added living quarters for sixty-two more students, four tutors, and a second warden. The reinforced concrete frame, again covered in Montreal limestone, was designed to allow slightly smaller, more economical rooms, but still possessed a pleasing facade on both Sherbrooke and University Streets. Named after a warden of the College, as were all the wings of the ever-expanding complex, the Vaughan Wing is still part of RVC; its rooms, spacious by today's standards, house a new generation of female students. Royal Victoria College was extended still further between 1948 and 1949 by the addition of the Reynolds Wing to the east side of the Hurlbatt Wing. Built by the firm of Barott, Marshal, Montgomery, and Merrett, this new steel-framed structure, faced with brick, stretches north up what is now Aylmer Street. The Garfield-Weston pool, running further east along Sherbrooke, was also added at this time. This new section of the complex of RVC provided 163 new rooms to satisfy the ever-growing needs of the women's residence.

Chadwick, Pope, and Edge
The Faculty of Management, once known as the School of Commerce, was originally located in the Arts Building. In 1942, John W. McConnell, a dedicated benefactor of McGill, Bought Purvis Hall, located on Pine near Peel Street, for the School of Commerce and the Faculty of Law. George H. Duggan donated his upper McTavish Street house to the University in 1944 and after 1946 it was occupied by the School of Commerce, yet the school was still short of space. Welcome relief came in 1964 when the Departments of Economics and Political Science moved into the newly erected Leacock Building, but the School of Commerce and the Graduate School of Business kept growing. In 1971, Samuel Bronfman, one of McGill's most loyal contributors, came to the rescue. He gave McGill an edifice, named in his honor, to house the newly opened Faculty of Management, formerly the School of Commerce. The site chosen for the Bronfman Building was at the northwest corner of Sherbrooke and McTavish, the location, until that time, of the Prince of Wales Terrace, one of the city's most prestigious set of row houses. Chadwick, Pope, and Edge, were the architects who designed the new six-storey structure, which rests solidly on a reinforced concrete frame. Identical, precast, concrete slabs are attached to the exterior, giving the facades a very regular appearance. To break this repetitive pattern, the ground floor is covered in striated concrete slabs and the second floor has only windows between the imposing columns. Overall, the exterior works well in combination with the McLennan Library, just across McTavish Street. The interior provided much needed classrooms, meeting rooms, offices, and a library for the Faculty of Management with space left over for the Departments of German, Hispanic, and Italian Studies. The Bronfman Building is expected to continue serving McGill well into the future. In 1971, Samuel Bronfman, one of McGill's most loyal contributors, came to the rescue. He gave McGill an edifice, named in his honor, to house the newly opened Faculty of Management, formerly the School of Commerce. The site chosen for the Bronfman Building was at the northwest corner of Sherbrooke and McTavish, the location, until that time, of the Prince of Wales Terrace, one of the city's most prestigious set of row houses. Chadwick, Pope, and Edge, were the architects who designed the new six-storey structure, which rests solidly on a reinforced concrete frame. Identical, precast, concrete slabs are attached to the exterior, giving the facades a very regular appearance. To break this repetitive pattern, the ground floor is covered in striated concrete slabs and the second floor has only windows between the imposing columns. Overall, the exterior works well in combination with the McLennan Library, just across McTavish Street. The interior provided much needed classrooms, meeting rooms, offices, and a library for the Faculty of Management with space left over for the Departments of German, Hispanic, and Italian Studies. The Bronfman Building is expected to continue serving McGill well into the future.

Dan Hanganu
Gelber Law Library

David Brown and Hugh Vallance
The Faculty of Medicine is the oldest at McGill and was, in the beginning, the only part of McGill capable of granting a degree. In October of 1845, the faculty, which until then had only bestowed diplomas through McGill, moved to the campus proper and set itself up in the Arts Building, the only edifice on the McGill property at that time. Since Montreal had not yet expanded as far west as McGill, the only access to the Arts Building was by way of bumpy, unkempt lanes which became almost impassable in the harsh winter drifts. One professor, Dr. MacCulloch, was actually much loved by the students because he had a large sleigh and gave passage to as many floundering students as he could.Dr. MacCallum recalled his 1847 experience as Prosector to the Professor of Anatomy: "I had to prepare, during the greater part of the session, the dissections of the parts which were to be the subject of the Professor's lectures the following day. This necessitated my passing several hours, usually from nine to twelve o'clock at night, in the dismal foul-smelling dissecting room, my only company being several partially dissected subjects, and numerous rats which kept up a lively racket, coursing over and below the floor and within the walls of the room..." Thus the Faculty of Medicine was not entirely satisfied with its placement in the Arts Building, "a lonely building, far removed from other dwellings, imperfectly heated, and lighted by candles - the light being barely sufficient to render the surrounding darkness visible."In 1851, the Faculty of Medicine relocated to Côté Street where its members had constructed a suitable home from their own pockets. It was not until 1872 that the faculty could be persuaded to return to the campus. This time, an entire building was erected, on the site of the present-day James Administration Building, purposely to house the faculty and welcome it home.In 1907 two tragic fires occurred on campus within a two week period. The first, on April 5th, destroyed the Old Macdonald Engineering Building, designed by Sir Andrew Taylor in 1893. It was resurrected in 1908 by Percy Nobbs. The second fire, on April 16th, gutted three out of four sections of the Old Medical Building, once located where James Administration is today, just northeast of the Arts Building. The only part to survive, still used today as part of James Administration, was an addition constructed in 1894 by Sir Andrew Taylor.After this second fire, the Faculty of Medicine found itself homeless and had to hold classes in rented space downtown. Fortunately, Lord Strathcona, always a friend to the University, immediately stepped forward and offered to purchase land and erect a new structure for the displaced faculty. The site chosen was at the southwest corner of Pine and University, across from the Royal Victoria Hospital. David Brown and Hugh Vallance were hired to design the new Strathcona Medical Building which opened in 1909.The Faculty of Medicine was, and still is, one of the most revered at McGill and to reflect this Lord Strathcona insisted on a design in which no detail was ignored. Because Medicine had close connections with the Royal Victoria Hospital, the layout of the new building mirrored the main entrance and wings of the Hospital across the street. Strathcona, a 4-storey, stone edifice, has a central bay with two flanking wings connected by corridors. At one time, the central gallery, once spanned by a beautiful stained-glass dome, was used as an ethnological museum with displays of man's evolution and primitive cultures on each floor. On the south of the third floor was the students' reading room, still preserved in its original state, featuring stained-glass skylights, leather upholstered oak doors, delicate chandeliers, long oak tables, and small, green reading lamps.In 1919, Percy Nobbs, who designed many buildings for McGill, was commissioned to create a stained-glass window commemorating the members of the Medical Faculty who fought or died in World War I. The deep colours of this large work still illuminate the second floor hall of the Strathcona Medical Building.Sir William Osler, distinguished for his research accomplishments in Medicine, wished to leave his extensive library of medical texts with his faculty. Thus, in 1921, Nobbs was asked to construct the Osler Library within the Strathcona edifice. These three oak-paneled bays contain not only the works and collection of Osler, but his heart as well, placed in the centre wall. After the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building was erected in 1965, the Osler Library was moved, piece by piece, and installed in its south wing where it now serves scholars and students of medicine.Additional Pictures of the Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building Strathcona Medical Building (1940s)--McGill Archives Museum with totem--McGill Archives Students' reading room--McGill Archives Strathcona Medical Building--McGill Archives Strathcona Medical Building--McGill Archives Dr. MacCallum recalled his 1847 experience as Prosector to the Professor of Anatomy: "I had to prepare, during the greater part of the session, the dissections of the parts which were to be the subject of the Professor's lectures the following day. This necessitated my passing several hours, usually from nine to twelve o'clock at night, in the dismal foul-smelling dissecting room, my only company being several partially dissected subjects, and numerous rats which kept up a lively racket, coursing over and below the floor and within the walls of the room..." Thus the Faculty of Medicine was not entirely satisfied with its placement in the Arts Building, "a lonely building, far removed from other dwellings, imperfectly heated, and lighted by candles - the light being barely sufficient to render the surrounding darkness visible."In 1851, the Faculty of Medicine relocated to Cot� Street where its members had constructed a suitable home from their own pockets. It was not until 1872 that the faculty could be persuaded to return to the campus. This time, an entire building was erected, on the site of the present-day James Administration Building, purposely to house the faculty and welcome it home.In 1907 two tragic fires occurred on campus within a two week period. The first, on April 5th, destroyed the Old Macdonald Engineering Building, designed by Sir Andrew Taylor in 1893. It was resurrected in 1908 by Percy Nobbs. The second fire, on April 16th, gutted three out of four sections of the Old Medical Building, once located where James Administration is today, just northeast of the Arts Building. The only part to survive, still used today as part of James Administration, was an addition constructed in 1894 by Sir Andrew Taylor.After this second fire, the Faculty of Medicine found itself homeless and had to hold classes in rented space downtown. Fortunately, Lord Strathcona, always a friend to the University, immediately stepped forward and offered to purchase land and erect a new structure for the displaced faculty. The site chosen was at the southwest corner of Pine and University, across from the Royal Victoria Hospital. David Brown and Hugh Vallance were hired to design the new Strathcona Medical Building which opened in 1909.The Faculty of Medicine was, and still is, one of the most revered at McGill and to reflect this Lord Strathcona insisted on a design in which no detail was ignored. Because Medicine had close connections with the Royal Victoria Hospital, the layout of the new building mirrored the main entrance and wings of the Hospital across the street. Strathcona, a 4-storey, stone edifice, has a central bay with two flanking wings connected by corridors. At one time, the central gallery, once spanned by a beautiful stained-glass dome, was used as an ethnological museum with displays of man's evolution and primitive cultures on each floor. On the south of the third floor was the students' reading room, still preserved in its original state, featuring stained-glass skylights, leather upholstered oak doors, delicate chandeliers, long oak tables, and small, green reading lamps.In 1919, Percy Nobbs, who designed many buildings for McGill, was commissioned to create a stained-glass window commemorating the members of the Medical Faculty who fought or died in World War I. The deep colours of this large work still illuminate the second floor hall of the Strathcona Medical Building.Sir William Osler, distinguished for his research accomplishments in Medicine, wished to leave his extensive library of medical texts with his faculty. Thus, in 1921, Nobbs was asked to construct the Osler Library within the Strathcona edifice. These three oak-paneled bays contain not only the works and collection of Osler, but his heart as well, placed in the centre wall. After the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building was erected in 1965, the Osler Library was moved, piece by piece, and installed in its south wing where it now serves scholars and students of medicine.Additional Pictures of the Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building Strathcona Medical Building (1940s)--McGill Archives Museum with totem--McGill Archives Students' reading room--McGill Archives Strathcona Medical Building--McGill Archives Strathcona Medical Building--McGill Archives Dr. MacCallum recalled his 1847 experience as Prosector to the Professor of Anatomy: "I had to prepare, during the greater part of the session, the dissections of the parts which were to be the subject of the Professor's lectures the following day. This necessitated my passing several hours, usually from nine to twelve o'clock at night, in the dismal foul-smelling dissecting room, my only company being several partially dissected subjects, and numerous rats which kept up a lively racket, coursing over and below the floor and within the walls of the room..." Thus the Faculty of Medicine was not entirely satisfied with its placement in the Arts Building, "a lonely building, far removed from other dwellings, imperfectly heated, and lighted by candles - the light being barely sufficient to render the surrounding darkness visible." In 1851, the Faculty of Medicine relocated to Cot� Street where its members had constructed a suitable home from their own pockets. It was not until 1872 that the faculty could be persuaded to return to the campus. This time, an entire building was erected, on the site of the present-day James Administration Building, purposely to house the faculty and welcome it home. In 1907 two tragic fires occurred on campus within a two week period. The first, on April 5th, destroyed the Old Macdonald Engineering Building, designed by Sir Andrew Taylor in 1893. It was resurrected in 1908 by Percy Nobbs. The second fire, on April 16th, gutted three out of four sections of the Old Medical Building, once located where James Administration is today, just northeast of the Arts Building. The only part to survive, still used today as part of James Administration, was an addition constructed in 1894 by Sir Andrew Taylor. After this second fire, the Faculty of Medicine found itself homeless and had to hold classes in rented space downtown. Fortunately, Lord Strathcona, always a friend to the University, immediately stepped forward and offered to purchase land and erect a new structure for the displaced faculty. The site chosen was at the southwest corner of Pine and University, across from the Royal Victoria Hospital. David Brown and Hugh Vallance were hired to design the new Strathcona Medical Building which opened in 1909. The Faculty of Medicine was, and still is, one of the most revered at McGill and to reflect this Lord Strathcona insisted on a design in which no detail was ignored. Because Medicine had close connections with the Royal Victoria Hospital, the layout of the new building mirrored the main entrance and wings of the Hospital across the street. Strathcona, a 4-storey, stone edifice, has a central bay with two flanking wings connected by corridors. At one time, the central gallery, once spanned by a beautiful stained-glass dome, was used as an ethnological museum with displays of man's evolution and primitive cultures on each floor. On the south of the third floor was the students' reading room, still preserved in its original state, featuring stained-glass skylights, leather upholstered oak doors, delicate chandeliers, long oak tables, and small, green reading lamps. In 1919, Percy Nobbs, who designed many buildings for McGill, was commissioned to create a stained-glass window commemorating the members of the Medical Faculty who fought or died in World War I. The deep colours of this large work still illuminate the second floor hall of the Strathcona Medical Building. Sir William Osler, distinguished for his research accomplishments in Medicine, wished to leave his extensive library of medical texts with his faculty. Thus, in 1921, Nobbs was asked to construct the Osler Library within the Strathcona edifice. These three oak-paneled bays contain not only the works and collection of Osler, but his heart as well, placed in the centre wall. After the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building was erected in 1965, the Osler Library was moved, piece by piece, and installed in its south wing where it now serves scholars and students of medicine.

Dobush, Stewart, and Assoc.
The Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, named after one of McGill's most famous radiation physicists, was constructed in 1977 to provide this department with more modern labs and equipment than could be housed in the Macdonald Physics Building. This five-storey structure, built by Dobush, Stewart, Hein, Longpré, Marchand, and Goudreau, stands on University, across the way from the Eaton Electronics Laboratory (recently demolished) and the Foster Radiation and Cyclotron Building. Dobush and Stewart were two of the architects commissioned for McLennan Library and Stewart Biology and so were already familiar with the style of the campus. The Rutherford Building consists of prefabricated concrete slabs attached to a steel frame. Special precautions were taken to make the building as tremor free and stable as possible due to the nature of the experiments carried out here. The concrete is of a texture and colour that blends with the rest of the McGill campus structures. The only element of decoration in this functional building is the regular fenestration of tinted grey panels. The ground floor contains offices and large lecture rooms while the the upper storeys are given to offices and labs, some quite specialized. On the roof there are two astronomic observation domes used to study the stars on clear nights. Recently, the Ernest Rutherford Museum, which contains his desk and some of his equipment, was removed from the Macdonald-Stewart Library and was installed in the Ernest Rutherford Physics Building where it is still appreciated by modern physicists.

Dobush, Stewart, and Bourke
The McLennan Library was constructed at the northeast corner of Sherbrooke and McTavish between 1967 and 1969 by the firm Dobush, Stewart, and Bourke, the designers of the Stewart Biological Sciences and Ernest Rutherford Physics Buildings. It stands on the site of what was once Jesse Joseph's mansion named Dilcoosha, meaning the Heart's Delight in Hindustani. This exotic abode, which was a COTC headquarters during World War I and after that was the home of the McCord museum for many years, was built in 1864 and demolished in 1955 due to the structural failure of one of its walls. The massive, seven-storey reinforced concrete structure that is McGill's largest library was named in honour of Isabella McLennan who had given McGill a fortune with which to purchase books, a need that will never be satisfied. McLennan Library, located just south of the modern part of Redpath Hall and connected to it by a bridge hallway, has an outer shell consisting of identical precast concrete panels that are attached to a reinforced concrete frame. The main entrance to McLennan is at the south end of Redpath's concrete terrace; it replaced the stairs that went from the terrace to Sherbrooke. All traffic between floors is controlled by the central stairwell and elevator core. This allows each floor to allocate a maximum amount of space to book stacks and reading areas which, for the most part, are open to the students. The first floor, which is actually one below the main entrance level, houses the McGill Archives and the fascinating collections of the Rare Books and Special Collections. The principal entrance level, actually on the second floor, contains the circulation desk, the reference area, and library administration. The only decoration of this massive edifice is the repeating pattern created by the concrete exterior. The prefabricated concrete exterior blends well with the newer Samuel Bronfman Building across McTavish. The colour and texture of the durable concrete integrate McLennan with the rest of the campus. The interior has a calm quiet air which, combined with soft lighting, facilitates studying without distraction.
The Stewart Biological Sciences Building is situated just south of the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, to which it is linked by an enclosed bridge, and just west of Chancellor Day Hall, formerly known as the James Ross Mansion, which can be reached by crossing a concrete terrace. It was constructed in 1965 in McIntyre Park on the site of what was once Duncan McIntyre's mansion, Craguie, a splendid, turreted Square Mile abode. At the beginning of this project, the Hodgeson house was located in the southwest corner of the chosen site. This building housed the McCord Museum for several years after it left the condemned Joseph House, the current site of McLennan Library, in 1955. In 1971, the McCord Museum was moved to its current location in McGill's old Student Union. Shortly after this, Hodgeson house was demolished and the site was occupied by Stewart Biological Sciences alone. Stewart Biology was designed by the firm Dobush, Stewart, and Bourke who were later commissioned for many other campus projects including McLennan Library and Rutherford Physics. This structure was designed in two sections. The larger, seven-storey section is L-shaped and contains offices and labs. South of this is the lecture building which features two large theatres, seating 300 and 150 students respectively, that are linked to certain labs in Stewart Biology and McIntyre Medical Sciences by closed circuit television. This allows many students at a time to see a demonstration and saves the professor and teaching assistants having to repeat the procedure several times. The separation of the two units allows the teaching area to bear the burden of heavy traffic in between classes. On top of the teaching unit is a large conservatory where plants are housed for study. This undecorated complex is constructed of precast concrete panels over a steel frame. The exterior is of a texture and colour that matches the older structures on the campus.

Durnford, Bolton, Chadwick, and Ellwood
The upper residences are situated among the trees in Macdonald Park, a parcel of land on Mount Royal donated to McGill in 1911 by Sir William Macdonald, a major benefactor of the University. All of the residences except Royal Victoria College are located in Macdonald Park and are quite removed from the noise and commotion of the city. Originally, all of McGill's residences were designated for men with the exception of the Royal Victoria College, which was reserved for women. Today, RVC remains a women's residence while all of the other residences are co-educational. The upper residences, built in 1961 by the firm of Durnford, Bolton, Chadwick and Ellwood, consist of three separate housing buildings which surround a dining building. McConnell, Molson, and Gardner Halls are identical and provide housing for 672 students all together. Each seven-storey hall is split into two wings by a central stair and elevator core. Approximately thirty-six students are housed on each floor in single rooms, men in one wing, women in the other. There is a kitchenette on every floor and two large, common bathrooms, one per wing. Every room has cement block walls, a large window, and is equipped with built in furniture. There is a large common area, a television room, a study room, and a games room on the ground floor of each hall, and a laundry room in the basement. Other recreation is easily accessible because of the proximity of the Gymnasium and Stadium, tennis courts, the Winter Stadium, the Forbes' Field, and Mount Royal. The exterior of these three halls is of brick, tile, and cement, alternating in regular patterns to allow a window in every bedroom. The entire central stairwell of each building is encased in glass. Bishop Mountain Hall, named after McGill's first principal, is the dining building in the centre of the residence halls. The two-storey, circular structure contains a reception and administration area on the first floor, and a large cafeteria and kitchen on the second floor. The circular shape was decided upon so that the kitchen and cooking facilities could be located in the core of the building. This allows the outer rim of the second floor to be used as a large circular eating area, entirely encased in glass and able to be divided into four sections by moving partitions.
The upper residences are situated among the trees in Macdonald Park, a parcel of land on Mount Royal donated to McGill in 1911 by Sir William Macdonald, a major benefactor of the University. All of the residences except Royal Victoria College are located in Macdonald Park and are quite removed from the noise and commotion of the city. Originally, all of McGill's residences were designated for men with the exception of the Royal Victoria College, which was reserved for women. Today, RVC remains a women's residence while all of the other residences are co-educational. The upper residences, built in 1961 by the firm of Durnford, Bolton, Chadwick and Ellwood, consist of three separate housing buildings which surround a dining building. McConnell, Molson, and Gardner Halls are identical and provide housing for 672 students all together. Each seven-storey hall is split into two wings by a central stair and elevator core. Approximately thirty-six students are housed on each floor in single rooms, men in one wing, women in the other. There is a kitchenette on every floor and two large, common bathrooms, one per wing. Every room has cement block walls, a large window, and is equipped with built in furniture. There is a large common area, a television room, a study room, and a games room on the ground floor of each hall, and a laundry room in the basement. Other recreation is easily accessible because of the proximity of the Gymnasium and Stadium, tennis courts, the Winter Stadium, the Forbes' Field, and Mount Royal. The exterior of these three halls is of brick, tile, and cement, alternating in regular patterns to allow a window in every bedroom. The entire central stairwell of each building is encased in glass. Bishop Mountain Hall, named after McGill's first principal, is the dining building in the centre of the residence halls. The two-storey, circular structure contains a reception and administration area on the first floor, and a large cafeteria and kitchen on the second floor. The circular shape was decided upon so that the kitchen and cooking facilities could be located in the core of the building. This allows the outer rim of the second floor to be used as a large circular eating area, entirely encased in glass and able to be divided into four sections by moving partitions.
The upper residences are situated among the trees in Macdonald Park, a parcel of land on Mount Royal donated to McGill in 1911 by Sir William Macdonald, a major benefactor of the University. All of the residences except Royal Victoria College are located in Macdonald Park and are quite removed from the noise and commotion of the city. Originally, all of McGill's residences were designated for men with the exception of the Royal Victoria College, which was reserved for women. Today, RVC remains a women's residence while all of the other residences are co-educational. The upper residences, built in 1961 by the firm of Durnford, Bolton, Chadwick and Ellwood, consist of three separate housing buildings which surround a dining building. McConnell, Molson, and Gardner Halls are identical and provide housing for 672 students all together. Each seven-storey hall is split into two wings by a central stair and elevator core. Approximately thirty-six students are housed on each floor in single rooms, men in one wing, women in the other. There is a kitchenette on every floor and two large, common bathrooms, one per wing. Every room has cement block walls, a large window, and is equipped with built in furniture. There is a large common area, a television room, a study room, and a games room on the ground floor of each hall, and a laundry room in the basement. Other recreation is easily accessible because of the proximity of the Gymnasium and Stadium, tennis courts, the Winter Stadium, the Forbes' Field, and Mount Royal. The exterior of these three halls is of brick, tile, and cement, alternating in regular patterns to allow a window in every bedroom. The entire central stairwell of each building is encased in glass. Bishop Mountain Hall, named after McGill's first principal, is the dining building in the centre of the residence halls. The two-storey, circular structure contains a reception and administration area on the first floor, and a large cafeteria and kitchen on the second floor. The circular shape was decided upon so that the kitchen and cooking facilities could be located in the core of the building. This allows the outer rim of the second floor to be used as a large circular eating area, entirely encased in glass and able to be divided into four sections by moving partitions.
The upper residences are situated among the trees in Macdonald Park, a parcel of land on Mount Royal donated to McGill in 1911 by Sir William Macdonald, a major benefactor of the University. All of the residences except Royal Victoria College are located in Macdonald Park and are quite removed from the noise and commotion of the city. Originally, all of McGill's residences were designated for men with the exception of the Royal Victoria College, which was reserved for women. Today, RVC remains a women's residence while all of the other residences are co-educational. The upper residences, built in 1961 by the firm of Durnford, Bolton, Chadwick and Ellwood, consist of three separate housing buildings which surround a dining building. McConnell, Molson, and Gardner Halls are identical and provide housing for 672 students all together. Each seven-storey hall is split into two wings by a central stair and elevator core. Approximately thirty-six students are housed on each floor in single rooms, men in one wing, women in the other. There is a kitchenette on every floor and two large, common bathrooms, one per wing. Every room has cement block walls, a large window, and is equipped with built in furniture. There is a large common area, a television room, a study room, and a games room on the ground floor of each hall, and a laundry room in the basement. Other recreation is easily accessible because of the proximity of the Gymnasium and Stadium, tennis courts, the Winter Stadium, the Forbes' Field, and Mount Royal. The exterior of these three halls is of brick, tile, and cement, alternating in regular patterns to allow a window in every bedroom. The entire central stairwell of each building is encased in glass. Bishop Mountain Hall, named after McGill's first principal, is the dining building in the centre of the residence halls. The two-storey, circular structure contains a reception and administration area on the first floor, and a large cafeteria and kitchen on the second floor. The circular shape was decided upon so that the kitchen and cooking facilities could be located in the core of the building. This allows the outer rim of the second floor to be used as a large circular eating area, entirely encased in glass and able to be divided into four sections by moving partitions.

Edward Maxwell
In 1901, Charles Hosmer commissioned Edward Maxwell, one of Canada's most renowned architects who, with his brother William, designed the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, to design a mansion for him on Drummond Street. Hosmer was a self-made entrepreneur who was, during his life, manager of the Canadian Pacific Railroad telegraph department and president of Ogilvie Flour Mills. The house, made of conspicuous orange sandstone, shows the influence of the Paris Beaux Arts and has an ornate facade in a distinctly French style. The interior featured a different style in each room. The library, done in rosewood, resembled a room from the Renaissance. The reception room hinted at the Rococo style of Louis XVI. The entrance hall and main staircase spoke of the grandeur and opulence of the Baroque. The bedrooms and the French Gothic dining hall were replete with carvings and details, and intricate iron work. Recently, more than thirty original, Renaissance, domestic stained glass panels were discovered in the windows and door panes of the mansion. They have since been reinstalled in the Macdonald-Harrington Building where they enhance the glass walls of the offices of the School of Architecture. The Hosmer House, having weathered many decades, was bought by McGill in 1969 and now houses the Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy. Many of the rooms have been altered to suit the building's new function, but the original concept is still in evidence.

Edward and William Maxwell
In 1909 James Ross commissioned the famous Montreal architects Edward and William Maxwell to build a house for his son, John Kenneth Leveson Ross, who loved nothing more than horse racing and yachting and managed to spend all of his considerable inheritance by 1935. Ross's house, located across from his father's on Peel Street, shows a trend towards a more austere, symmetrical, Classical style, prevalent in the early twentieth century. This abode, although supported by a steel frame, hides its modernity beneath a symmetrical, Edwardian Baroque style facade. Colossal Ionic pilasters, supporting a broken pediment, emphasize the centre and entrance of the building as does the balcony protruding over the door. As with many Classical edifices, the fenestration becomes less embellished with each ascending floor. The interior features several elegant oak paneled rooms, many of which have intricate plaster details on the ceiling. Marionopolis College bought the house in 1961 for CEGEP administration. In 1976, McGill purchased the house and named it the J.K.L. Ross house. Today it is occupied by the Institute and Centre of Air and Space Law.
The Charles Meredith House, built in 1907 by the well-known Canadian architects Edward and William Maxwell, is located on Pine Avenue just west of the Lady Meredith House which belonged to Charles' sister. This Georgian style Square Mile residence was occupied by Mr. Meredith and his family until 1937, at which point it became a nurses' residence for the Royal Victoria Hospital, one block to the east. In 1975, the house was donated to McGill and became the home of the Department of Occupational Health (Faculty of Medicine) and is now part of the Joint Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health.
Ardvarna was built in 1897 for Andrew Allan, a partner in the Allan Line Steamship Company, by the famous Montreal architects Edward and William Maxwell. In 1906, Sir Henry Vincent Meredith, president of the Bank of Montreal, married Isabella Brenda Allan, the daughter of Andrew Allan and the niece of Hugh Allan, who lived at Ravenscrag. At this time, Ardvarna, a turreted, brick mansion, bordering on Richardsonian Romanesque, was given to the newly-weds by Andrew Allan. Sir Vincent died in 1929, but Lady Meredith continued to occupy the house, at the corner of Peel Street and Pine Avenue, until 1941 at which point she gave it to the Royal Victoria Hospital to use as a nurses' residence. McGill acquired the use of Ardvarna in 1975, but shared it with the Hospital for many years. In 1990, McGill's Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Law and the McGill Pulmonary Research Lab were both housed in Ardvarna, now called the Lady Meredith House. On January 7, 1990, the edifice was broken into and the old mansion, one of the few left with its interior details intact, was set on fire. Fortunately, the fire department and McGill responded quickly and there was minimal structural damage. McGill decided to renovate Ardvarna to its original elegance and hired Julia Gersovitz, a McGill graduate and professor, and her firm, Gersovitz, Becker, and Moss for the project.
In 1909, James T. Davis, a Square Mile entrepreneur, commissioned the renowned Canadian architects Edward and William Maxwell to design a mansion suitable for a man of his stature. The result was an Elizabethan Tudor style edifice of red brick on Drummond Street. This building, which features Dutch dormer windows, high gables, and steep roofs, shows the flexibility of the Beaux-arts trained architects. At the request of their patron, the Maxwells used a concealed steel and concrete frame to support the structure and supplied electric lighting to the house. The mansion has many interesting features, such as the dining room, which is a replica of a room in the Vatican, the Italian Renaissance style library, a seventeenth-century English dining room, and the chapel on the second floor.

Ellwood, Aimers, and Henderson
The Education Building was constructed in 1971 by the firm of Ellwood, Aimers, and Henderson in response to McGill's growing need for space. This seven-storey, brick and concrete structure, which stretches between McTavish and Peel Streets, is quite close to Duggan House, which is also devoted to the Faculty of Education. Although it is a modern building, its many tiered levels and brick facing allow it to blend with the older mansions around it with respect to shape and size. In this structure, more attention has been paid to detail than in other recent University projects. The Education Building is unusual in that it possesses a brick exterior, a feature which makes the edifice less austere than some of the other modern campus projects.

Fetherstonhaugh, Durnford, Bolton, and Chadwick
In the 1950s, the Department of Physics found that it had outgrown the Macdonald Physics Building both in its need for space and technologically. New discoveries had been made that warranted the erection of more modern labs and facilities. In 1948, the firm of Fetherstonhaugh, Durnford, Bolton, and Chadwick was commissioned to build the Foster Radiation Laboratory and Cyclotron, named after the McGill physicist John Stuart Foster. Harold Fetherstonhaugh had already completed several projects for McGill, such as the William and Henry Birks Building and Douglas Hall. The new lab, located northeast of the Arts Building, was a purely functional concrete structure that provided necessary space and more modern equipment for experiments in Physics.
In 1950, the Foster Radiation Laboratory and Cyclotron was joined by the Eaton Electronics Building, named after its donor, Lady Eaton. The Eaton Building completed an important phase of the expansion of the Department of Physics by providing more research facilities. It was demolished in 1996 to make way for the Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences Building.

Fleming and Smith
The McConnell Engineering Building was donated to McGill in 1959 by John W. McConnell, a major benefactor of the University since 1911 and one of its Governors from 1928 until 1958. In the period after World War II when all of the Engineering Faculties were greatly expanding, this nine-storey structure doubled the number of classrooms, lecture rooms, and offices available for use by the above faculties. McConnell Engineering, located on the southwest corner of Milton and University, provides a connection between the F.D. Adams Building to the south, and the Workman Wing of the Macdonald Engineering Building to the west. Along with Macdonald Chemistry and Macdonald Physics (now the Macdonald-Harrington Building and Macdonald-Stewart Library Building, respectively), McConnell Engineering creates a complete, joined circuit of buildings for Engineering and its Schools. As is typical of Fleming and Smith's other campus projects, such as the F.D. Adams and the Otto Maass Chemistry Buildings, the McConnell Engineering Building features a modern use of concrete faced with stone, interrupted regularly by bands of windows. It is a very functional structure containing many labs and offices on all its floors and two large lecture theatres, one spanning the first and second floors, the other placed above it on the second and third floors. Generally, the more specialized facilities are located on higher floors, while the most frequently used labs and classrooms are on the lower floors. This keeps traffic between classes to a minimum and reduces the amount of crowding on the building's six elevators. Aside from the Chemical and Electrical Engineering Faculties, the School of Computer Science is also located in this building. The only ornament of the McConnell Engineering is a series of three carvings on the east, facing University Street. Each contains the symbols of different fields of Engineering and creates a break in the pattern of windows.
Named after a prominent Chairman of the Department of Chemistry who was active in research during World War II, the Otto Maass Chemistry Building was built between 1964 and 1966. It was the last of the campus projects completed by the firm of Fleming and Smith, which was also responsible for the Physical Sciences Centre (now the Frank Dawson Adams Building) and the McConnell Engineering Building. This large structure at the northwest corner of Sherbrooke and University replaced some tennis courts and the Workman House, a Square Mile style abode donated to McGill by Lord Strathcona in 1904 and used for years by the Faculty of Music. It is just south of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute designed by Percy Nobbs in 1927 and connects, underground, to Burnside Hall which overshadows it to the west. In the 1960s, functionality replaced ornament and the structure of the building itself served as the only decor. The Otto Maass Chemistry Building, which has five storeys including the basement, follows this formula. It is divided into four blocks, each of slightly different dimensions, arranged in an L-shape; three are along Sherbrooke Street and one stretches up University Street. The large units are connected by smaller, glass-walled staircase sections. The two sides of the L-shaped wings frame a terrace above ground, under which there are basement classrooms and storage rooms. The first floor of the middle block is the main entrance and also contains the largest lecture theatre which extends into the basement and can seat almost 250 students. On the floors above this level are offices and smaller classrooms. In the other three units, all of the above ground floors are dedicated to various labs and work areas. The building provides a maximum of research and lab space while trying to blend with the older edifices around it such as the Pulp and Paper Institute. The exterior of Otto Maass is of Queenston limestone which covers the thick, supporting, concrete walls. This was the last McGill project to feature real stone, not just concrete, on the exterior. The fenestration is regular on all sides of each unit, but is broken by the glassed in stairwells. These rows of widely-spaced, small windows provide pattern to the exterior and are the only decor of the building, unlike the picturesquely placed windows of the Macdonald Physics Building nearby. The small windows combined with the blank stone exterior and the proportions of each block give the building a sturdy, rather heavy appearance. On the interior, the size of the windows does not provide enough natural light to the building and so fluorescent light is used throughout, making the interior seem controlled and cold. The concrete walls hold concrete beams which reach to the centre of each block and support the concrete floors. The core of each block is actually an open shaft that acts as ventilation for the fume hoods in the labs. Each unit is topped by a steel penthouse that contains mechanical equipment.
The Frank Dawson Adams Building, named after a professor of Geology who also served as Vice Principal from 1920 to 1924 and became the first chairman of Graduate Studies, was originally named the Physical Sciences Centre. It was finished in October, 1951 by the firm of Fleming and Smith who were later commissioned by McGill to build both the McConnell Engineering and the Otto Maass Chemistry Buildings. The space was originally intended for Mining, Metallurgical, and Chemical Engineering and Geology, allowing Physics and Chemistry to remain in the Macdonald Physics and Macdonald Chemistry Buildings, respectively. This structure, connected to the campus by a small bridge, provides a link between Macdonald Physics and Macdonald Chemistry (now the Macdonald-Stewart Library Building and the Macdonald-Harrington Building, respectively) and then stretches north along University Street. All four floors (the fourth was added in 1963) were erected around a steel frame and the materials chosen are durable and of good quality. F. D. Adams has large windows which allow much natural light at the west and east ends and provide a view of the opposite side of campus. There is a large lecture theatre on the second and third floors which can accomodate 350 science students, allowing the lectures to be given in just one section. The Department of Geology, having been moved from the fifth floor of Macdonald Chemistry, is located on the second through fourth floors with several Engineering faculties sharing the main and basement areas. As with many designs of this period, the F. D. Adams Building is very functional; it's only ornament is the structure itself.

Gratton Thompson
Since the 1860's, McGill has had several gates placed at the main entrance on Sherbrooke Street. In William Dawson's time, there was a picket fence around the whole lower campus area with the gate marked off by arched hedges. Later, the gates were of carved stone lacing. Under Dawson's principalship, a charming, gabled gatehouse was built at the entrance and was the home of McGill's porter. From the 1880's through the early twentieth century, it was fashionable to have a family portrait taken against the background of the gatehouse, or other aspects of the campus. In 1924, McGill acquired a permanent and monumental entrance. Lady Amy Redpath Roddick donated the Roddick Gates in memory of her beloved husband, Sir Thomas George Roddick, a renowned doctor who began the regular practice of sterile surgery using antiseptics and was dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1901 to 1908. Sir Thomas was a very punctual man and so Lady Roddick decided that the most fitting memorial would be an entrance gate that incorporated a clock tower, complete with chimes at each end. Ironically, the clocks and chimes periodically stop with each of the four faces telling a different time. Lady Roddick commissioned Gratton Thompson to carry out the work on the Gates. His design gave the University the Classical Greek style colonnaded arms that welcome passersby onto the grounds of McGill today.

Harold Fetherstonhaugh
This structure, known as Divinity Hall until 1972, was originally owned by the Joint Board of Theological Colleges and was built between 1929 and 1931 by Harold Fetherstonhaugh, a student of Percy Nobbs. Its cruciform plan, Collegiate Gothic design, and many architectural details all reflect the religious function of this building without favouring any particular denomination. This concurs with the religious attitudes on which McGill was founded. Fetherstonhaugh succeeded in giving the Joint Board a well-designed building which was constructed of many high quality materials. Stadacona limestone covers the exterior and lends the facade, with its elegant fenestration, a feeling of mass and stability. The interior contains oak panelling, plaster mouldings, wrought iron, stained glass windows, and carved wood and stone Biblical imagery such as the lamb, the true vine, the rose of the passion, the dove, and the pelican. Although there is much ornamentation throughout, it is not superfluous; it accents the function of the building which currently houses the Faculty of Religious Studies. Two of the most interesting areas of the Birks' Building are the library, which is oak panelled and features pilasters on the walls, and the chapel, which seats 175 and spans two storeys. Both rooms are well suited to their function. Each library window features a small stained glass emblem in its centre, yet still allows plenty of light to enter this working area. The chapel's height and narrowness give it a Gothic air. A large stained glass window of the Ascension dominates the west end and is accompanied by a series of smaller panels around the top of the nave. Because of these windows, only diffuse light enters this somewhat dim hall creating an aura of calm and serenity quite suitable to a chapel. The Birks' Building is one of McGill's finest and has served the University well during its 65 years.
Douglas Hall was built in 1936 by Harold Fetherstonhaugh, who designed many other campus projects including the William and Henry Birks Building, and his current partner Alexander Durnford. It was named after James Douglas II who bestowed $200,000 on the University in 1915 with the request that the money be used to provide a men's residence. Following the bequest, Percy Erskine Nobbs, a Professor of Design of the School of Architecture, had submitted plans in 1918 for a large residence situated just north of the Percival Molson Stadium, but they were not approved by the University. Douglas Hall today stands unchanged from its original conception. The stone exterior encloses a central courtyard on three sides. The interior shows stone and wood floors and plaster and wood walls. The furnished rooms are organized into suites of three to five bedrooms opening onto a common living room. Each living room has its own custom designed fireplace. The hall is divided into eight houses of which six have three floors and two have four floors; each floor contains two suites with a common bathroom. Douglas also features a large dining hall with an exposed timber ceiling, a common room with a grand piano and several sofas for student recreation, and a quiet study lined with oak bookshelves and lit by globe shaped lights. At its opening, Douglas commanded a view of downtown extending to the St. Laurent and beyond. Today, the stands of the Percival Molson Stadium have been extended and block much of this view, except from the top floors.

Harold Fetherstonhaugh and Alexander Durnford
Douglas Hall was built in 1936 by Harold Fetherstonhaugh, who designed many other campus projects including the William and Henry Birks Building, and his current partner Alexander Durnford. It was named after James Douglas II who bestowed $200,000 on the University in 1915 with the request that the money be used to provide a men's residence. Following the bequest, Percy Erskine Nobbs, a Professor of Design of the School of Architecture, had submitted plans in 1918 for a large residence situated just north of the Percival Molson Stadium, but they were not approved by the University. Douglas Hall today stands unchanged from its original conception. The stone exterior encloses a central courtyard on three sides. The interior shows stone and wood floors and plaster and wood walls. The furnished rooms are organized into suites of three to five bedrooms opening onto a common living room. Each living room has its own custom designed fireplace. The hall is divided into eight houses of which six have three floors and two have four floors; each floor contains two suites with a common bathroom. Douglas also features a large dining hall with an exposed timber ceiling, a common room with a grand piano and several sofas for student recreation, and a quiet study lined with oak bookshelves and lit by globe shaped lights. At its opening, Douglas commanded a view of downtown extending to the St. Laurent and beyond. Today, the stands of the Percival Molson Stadium have been extended and block much of this view, except from the top floors.

Hugh Blachford and associates
This co-ed residence, mainly intended for first-year students, features furnished rooms and a communal kitchen on every floor.
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Built in 1968, the Centennial Centre is occupied by a wide variety of student organizations, services and facilities, including the MacDonald Campus Students' Society, Student Health Services, and modern Food and Nutrition labs. It also houses the Lyman Entomological Museum, whose insect collection consists of over 2.8 million specimens, making it the largest university insect collection in the country.

Hutchison and Steele
The Redpath Museum, thought to be the first building in Canada erected for a museological purpose, was donated to McGill in 1882 by Peter Redpath, the president of Redpath Sugar, who also bestowed the Redpath Library upon the University. The three-storey, Montreal limestone Museum was designed by the firm of Hutchison and Steele in the Classical Revival style and is located on a prominent site on the west side of lower campus. Great pains were taken to continue the neo-Greek themes of the facade throughout the structure, especially in the column capitals. The interior of the building offers several storage spaces, labs, a lecture theatre, and a large exhibition gallery that spans the second and third floors. The north end is rounded and is composed almost entirely of windows, allowing light to illuminate the exhibition hall and the first floor lecture theatre for most of the day. Many improvements have been made to the interior over the years to improve the lighting, control the climate, and make better use of available space, but the structure itself remains unchanged. When it was first opened, the Redpath Museum served as a gallery to house the natural history collections of Sir William Dawson, McGill's principal at the time. These collections are still attracting visitors today, a fact which becomes apparent when one is confronted by the mummies in the entrance foyer and the large dinosaur skeleton in the exhibition gallery.

Hutchison and Wood
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Built in 1905, thanks to a generous donation by Sir William Macdonald, this building was originally known as the Agriculture building. Amongst other things, it houses the McGill Herbarium, whose collection of over 140,000 plant specimens documents the research activities of McGill staff and students over the past century and serves as a rich source of research material for biologists.
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J. Cecil McDougall
Peterson Hall was built by J. Cecil McDougall, a colleague of Harold Fetherstonhaugh, in 1933 to house the Protestant School Board. This three-storey, white, concrete structure, located on McTavish Street, has a stone exterior which features carvings and inscriptions related to education. It was purchased by McGill in 1960 to provide a space for the Department of French Language and Literature and still serves this function today. The building was renamed Peterson Hall after Sir William Peterson, principal of the University from 1895 through World War I to 1919. All of the language departments greatly benefit from the language labs in the basement of Peterson Hall.

J.J. Perrault
In 1935, the Gravel family commissioned J.J. Perrault to design a house for them on McTavish Street. It had a concrete frame and floors with a Montreal limestone exterior. The house has a cube structure with a simple, yet elegant facade. The interior is divided into many small rooms which are graced with carved details in wood, moulded plaster ceilings, and ornate fireplaces. This edifice was purchased by McGill in 1968 to serve as the Post-Graduate Students' Society. At this time the house was renamed the Thomson House after David L. Thomson, a dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and a founder of the Post-Graduate Students' Society which still occupies the house today.

John Ostell
In 1811, James McGill bequeathed 10,000£ and his forty-six acre estate, which stretched from Dr. Penfield Avenue to Cathcart Street, to the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, a body which then governed the Quebec education system. This was done with the understanding that the land and money would be put towards a University to be created within ten years of McGill's death or the whole would become the property of McGill's heirs. James McGill died in 1813, but at that time, the Royal Institution had neither trustees nor a board and so did not have the power to execute the stipulations of the will. Ultimately, it took another sixteen years, several lawsuits, and many delays before classes were started. In June of 1829, classes were started in Burnside Hall, the late McGill's house, which was named after a small brook that meandered through the property. In this year, McGill College, as it was then called, annexed the Montreal Medical Institution so that it could grant degrees and McGill could have students. In 1837, with the property deed and the bequest in hand, the Royal Institution and McGill's new Board of Governors decided to erect the first buildings on campus, yet each faction had a different idea of what was required. The Royal Institution held a competition among several architects who were asked to design an edifice that befitted a University, met its teaching and housing needs, yet was not too expensive. In 1839, John Ostell, a prominent Montreal architect of British origin, won the competition and, after much strife between the Institution and the Board, construction began. In 1843, the central and east portions of the McGill College Building (now the Arts Building) were complete, but the Royal Institution was fast running out of money and so halted any further work. It had been decided in 1839 that a third floor and a cupola would be added to the central block to provide more room, but the planned west wing would not be constructed nor would the corridors that were intended to connect the wings to the centre. Both the exterior and the interior of the two completed sections were designed in the Classical style. A pediment, supported by Tuscan columns, capped the central block and the library on the second floor of this block was decorated in the Greek manner. The central block contained the steward's apartment, the kitchen, the Governor's' council room, the library, the college Hall, and classrooms. The east section held the chapel and the vice-principal's residence. A two-storey portico with Doric columns was planned but was not built at the time. Before 1843, the Royal Institution, despite the protests of the Board, decided to sell the land south of Sherbrooke Street to raise enough money to finish the project. In September of 1843, McGill College, in debt at the time, officially opened its central and east wings. Because they had never been properly finished, the roof began to leak, the rooms were cold and dimly lit, there were numerous rats in the walls, and several windows were broken. In 1852, the city started blasting for the McTavish reservoir which sent large rocks through the roof of the nearby McGill College Building; the staff and students sought refuge elsewhere. When the new principal, Sir William Dawson, arrived in 1855, he found the campus in a state of disorder. He later recalled, "I first saw [the college] in October 1855. Materially, it was represented by two blocks of unfurnished and partly ruinous buildings, standing amidst a wilderness of excavators' and masons' rubbish, overgrown with weeds and bushes. The grounds were unfenced and pastured at will by herds of cattle... The only access from town was by a circuitous and ungraded cart-track, almost impassable at night. The buildings had been abandoned..." (Frost, Stanley. McGill University for the Advancement of Learning 1 McGill-Queen's University Press 1980. 198) Sir William Dawson, who lived in the east wing, immediately made it his responsibility to get the campus into shape. In 1860, he hired J.W. Hopkins to add a one-storey wooden portico with Doric columns to the central block. Since Dawson was well connected with the elite of Montreal, he persuaded Sir William Molson to donate the west wing of the McGill College Building, named Molson Hall, and the connecting corridors built in the same Classical style as the original units. These held the convocation hall, library, classrooms, chemistry labs, and a small museum and left more room for residents. Of particular interest was the library on the second floor of Molson Hall which featured oak shelves and Classical columns. In 1925, Fetherstonhaugh and McDougall were hired to extensively renovate what, by then, was called the Arts Building. Until this time, the building had suffered problems with ventilation, heating, and overcrowding. Fetherstonhaugh transformed the first floor of the central block into a large entrance lobby with black marble columns and a floor of pink Tennessee marble. A coloured globe lamp hangs inside the entrance foyer surrounded by the signs of the zodiac, declaring the worldliness of the Faculty of Arts. Moyse Hall, a large lecture and play theatre adorned by ten electric bronze chandeliers and bas reliefs by Henri Herbet, was added behind the central wing of Arts. The rest of the building was divided into suites, one for each Arts Department. Outside, the wooden portico was dismantled and rebuilt in yellow stone with Doric columns and Molson Hall's roof was raised by one floor. Although the interior was greatly changed, the exterior remained the same. The east wing of the Arts Building was named Dawson Hall after Sir William Dawson, its most permanent occupant. It serves as an Administration facility today.

Lake, Little, and Mace
The Donner Building, named after its patron, W.H. Donner, was built in 1947 by the firm of Lake, Little, and Mace. At this time, the Faculty of Medicine was in need of more space and more modern facilities; the Donner Building provided both. This five storey concrete structure is located on Dr. Penfield Avenue, just south of the Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building. It is a purely functional building and serves its purpose well by providing more lab space for the faculty. In 1965, the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building was constructed on Pine Avenue and the Donner Building was given to the Faculty of Dentistry, which still uses it today.

Marshall and Merrett
The McIntyre Medical Sciences Building was constructed in 1965 by the firm of Marshall and Merrett. It is situated just north of the Stewart Biological Sciences Building in McIntyre Park, once the site of Duncan McIntyre's Square Mile mansion, Craguie. This circular, concrete, sixteen-storey tower has two entrances, one on Drummond Street which leads to the ground floor, and another on Pine Avenue which opens onto the sixth floor. The two main lecture theatres are positioned near the sixth floor entrance to reduce traffic in between classes. The fourteenth to sixteenth floors serve the animal research facility, the seventh to thirteenth floors contain research labs and offices, and the lower floors are dedicated to classrooms, offices, the library, a cafeteria, and public areas.

Marshall, Merrett, Stahl, Elliott, and Mill
Burnside Hall, named after the original home of James McGill, was built in 1970, by Marshall, Merrett, and Assoc., to meet the growing need for space in the Faculty of Science. This thirteen-storey structure was constructed of precast concrete slabs, with fixed, glazed windows, attached to a frame of reinforced concrete frame. Burnside is surrounded on three sides by other campus buildings: to the north is the Macdonald-Stewart Library (once the Macdonald Physics Building), to the northeast is the Pulp and Paper Research Institute, to the east and south is the Otto Maass Chemistry Building. An underground tunnel system connects all of these edifices to the rest of the science and engineering complex. All of the large classrooms are located in the basement underneath Burnside's concrete terrace. There are many entrances to this area to facilitate traffic between classes and to minimize congestion in the tower itself. The first floor of Burnside is used as a lobby, the second was given to the Computing Centre, and the rest, serving the needs of the Departments of Mathematics, Geography and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, contain offices, small classrooms, the Edward Rosenthal Library of Mathematics and Statistics, and the Walter Hitschfeld Environmental Earth Sciences Library. Although this building has no ornament other than its pattern of fenestration, its outer shell is thought to blend well with the colour and texture of other campus structures. It is expected to serve McGill well into the future and to this end can be expanded by an additional five storeys.

McDougall, Fleming, and Smith
The three buildings that currently serve McGill's athletic needs are all located in Macdonald Park, an area of land bounded on the south by Pine Avenue, on the west by University Street, and to the north and east by Mount Royal. This parcel of land was donated to McGill in 1911 by Sir William Macdonald, one of the University's most charitable friends. In 1956, J.W. McConnell, always a friend of the University, donated the McConnell Winter Stadium just northeast of the Gymnasium. This structure, built by McDougall, Fleming, and Smith, has an arched roof so that the entire interior can be used for stands and a hockey rink. This building, along with the gym and stadium, continues to satisfy the students' need for recreation and activity.

Percy Erskine Nobbs
In 1919, David M. McCord bequeathed his extensive collection of Canadian artifacts to McGill because it had long since overflowed his estate and because he desired to ensure the perpetuation of his work. Mcgill was at first uncertain as to how the collection, really a small museum, could be properly displayed, but room was found for it in the old Jesse Joseph mansion on the northeast corner of Sherbrooke and McTavish Streets. This Square Mile style abode, named Dilcoosha, a Hindustani word meaning "The Heart's Delight", had been used during World War I as McGill's COTC headquarters; its long upstairs hall had even been used as a range for target practice. In 1921 the house opened as the McCord Museum and the collection began to expand from donation. Unfortunately, in 1936 Dilcoosha was in desperate need of repair. One of its walls had begun to buckle and it was deemed too structurally unstable to be opened to the public. In 1955, the McCord Museum was moved from Dilcoosha to the Hodgeson house, located on the northeast corner of Dr. Penfield and Drummond Streets, later the site of theStewart Biological Sciences Building. After this move, Dilcoosha was demolished because it was structurally unsound; its site was chosen for the new McLennan Library, built in 1969. The McCord Museum was quite cramped in its new quarters and was kept closed to the public for lack of display rooms. Yet, in the 1950s, a series of articles was published on the subject of the Notman Photograph archive, a fascinating record of life at the turn of the century, which was part of the McCord's holdings. Because of this, the McCord opened a small part of the museum to the public. Shortly after this the National Gallery of Ottawa asked permission to borrow and display some of the rare paintings from the McCord. Public interest began to grow and soon the McCord was once again being offered donations and had soon far outgrown the Hodgeson house. At this point McGill was faced with the choice of giving the Museum its independence, or finding suitable quarters for it on campus. In 1965, it was decided that the old Student Union Building would be the new home of the McCord Museum. This English Palazzo style edifice, located on Sherbrooke Street just west of University Street, had been donated to McGill in 1905 by Sir William Macdonald, a major benefactor of the University. It was designed by Percy Erskine Nobbs, Director of the School of Architecture at the time, and his associates Hutchison and Wood. When it was opened in 1905, it was declared one of the finest clubs in Montreal. Membership in the Union was offered to any male student in the University willing to pay $5.00 a year, but the Union had much to offer. The structure, built of Montreal limestone, was elegant, but was not overly ornamented. The basement contained an exercise room, baths, showers, the kitchen, and storage areas. The entrance hall, on the first floor, led into the dining room and the luncheon room where students could get a hot meal after class. The second floor contained a spacious, comfortable lounge furnished with chairs and tables designed by Nobbs and heated, in part, by a large fireplace. The great hall, with frescoed tympanums above the windows, stretched the length of the third floor. By 1965, McGill's enrolment had increased to the extent that the Student Union, although very posh, was not large enough to serve the needs of the student body, both male and female. At this time, McGill decided to construct a new University Centreon McTavish Street, leaving the old Student Union vacant for occupancy by the McCord Museum. Renovations, paid for in great part by the John W. McConnell Foundation, were begun and, in 1971, the McCord Museum opened in its new, spacious home. After 1971, the McCord Museum once again began to receive increasing numbers of donations until, in 1987, it was decided to expand Nobbs' structure to give the Museum more room, and state-of-the-art preservation labs and climate control. This extension, paid for by the John W. McConnell Foundation, was constructed of limestone to match the original building. The McCord Museum was reopened to the public, in what is now its permanent home, after the extension was finished in 1991.
In 1909, Percy Erskine Nobbs, who designed many of the campuses structures and was the Director of the School of Architecture at the time, was commissioned to build a Power House for McGill to provide heat and electricity to many of the campuses buildings. These facilities, located on Dr. Penfield Avenue, had previously been in the Macdonald Engineering Building and enabled the students to see engines at work. The building was expanded in 1926 and 1936 to keep up with the demands of the campus. In 1963, Fleming and Smith were hired to construct a modern power plant for the University on the same site as the old one. This purely functional, concrete edifice was named the James Ferrier Building after a chancellor of McGill.
In the 1890's, the Arts Building was becoming more and more crowded as enrolment climbed and new faculties were added to the University. Thus, in 1893, the Applied Science Faculty, as Engineering was then called, was relocated to a new home consisting of two structures, one donated by Thomas Workman and one by Sir William Macdonald, one of McGill's most generous benefactors. The site chosen for the new additions to the campus was just southeast of the Arts Building, near University Street. The architect commissioned for both was Sir Andrew Taylor and his partner at that time, William Gordon. In designing the Workman Workshops, Taylor kept in mind that it was to be used as the machine and technical shops and as such needed to be sturdy, functional, and not overly ornamented. In keeping with these ideas, the lower three storeys were constructed of rough hewn Montreal limestone. After the Old Medical Building burned down on April 16, 1907, some of its stone was used to add a fourth storey with rounded arched windows to the Workman Workshops. The proportions of the structure are well suited to laboratories housing large machines. In 1947, this building was changed considerably. A fifth floor was added in finished stone by McDougall, Fleming, and Smith, and the labs were transformed into office and classroom spaces. Taylor's imposing, five-storey Macdonald Engineering Building featured a symmetrical, Italian Renaissance facade and was, like most of the campus, constructed of Montreal limestone on the exterior. The interior was lined with brick and was purely functional, containing on the ground floor a foundry, a forge, a steam and thermodynamics lab, a dynamo and engine room, and a hydraulics lab. The first floor housed a pattern shop, a wood shop, electrical equipment, and some offices. Most of the offices and classrooms were located on the second floor. The third floor included a library and an architecture and apparatus museum and the fourth was a studio and drafting room. Unfortunately, this perfectly equipped building was gutted by fire on April 5, 1907. The east wall, three upper storeys, most of the roof, and several professors' works were destroyed. Shortly after this, the Old Medical Building also burned down. Immediately after the terrible fire, Sir William Macdonald stepped forward once again to offer a new Engineering Building to the University. This is the present Engineering Building was erected on the foundations of Taylor's project, and was designed in 1908 by Percy Erskine Nobbs, the Director of the School of Architecture at the time who was responsible for many other campus developments. The University requested that this structure, in lieu of the fate of Taylor's, be quite fireproof and so Nobbs, like Taylor, had to put function ahead of ornament. Eighty-eight years later this edifice is still standing and is still used by the Faculties of Engineering. It has a layout and plan very similar to Taylor's. Like the old structure, it has a symmetrical facade, this time in a style influenced by Bernard Shaw. It is very practical, but contains some ornament, such as the carving, on the south wall, of a phoenix rising from ashes, a reminder of the fate of Taylor's building and a symbol of rebirth. In 1926, the Electrical Engineering Wing, built by George Ross, was attached to the east end of the Workman Wing of the Engineering Building. Intended to be used as machine shops it was constructed of brick and had no ornamentation inside or out. It is difficult to see this structure today because it is within an area closed off by the Frank Dawson Adams Building and the McConnell Engineering Building to the east, the Workman Wing to the north, the Macdonald Engineering Building to the west, and the Macdonald Chemistry Building (now called Macdonald-Harrington which houses the School of Architecture and Urban Planning) to the south.
The three buildings that currently serve McGill's athletic needs are all located in Macdonald Park, an area of land bounded on the south by Pine Avenue, on the west by University Street, and to the north and east by Mount Royal. This parcel of land was donated to McGill in 1911 by Sir William Macdonald, one of the University's most charitable friends. At one time, the Law family house and the Molson estate, named Piedmont, were located here. In 1920, Macdonald paid for the construction of the Percival Molson Stadium, named after a young, athletic member of the Molson family who had won many trophies for McGill, but was killed by a shell in 1917, during World War I. Percy Erskine Nobbs, a Professor of Design in the School of Architecture at the time, designed the stadium and its fieldhouse. The stadium today is unchanged, except that its stands are much higher than was originally intended. They partially block the view from Douglas Hall, a residence to the north of the stadium.
The Pathology Institute came into being in 1923 when the Royal Victoria Hospital petitioned the J.D. Rockefeller Foundation for building funds. The building, on the corner of Pine Avenue and University Street, was designed by Percy Erskine Nobbs, a Professor of Design at the School of Architecture, and his partner George Taylor Hyde. This Montreal limestone structure continues the Hospital's Scottish Medieval themes, but in a less severe and more functional manner. Nobbs, who carefully considered the site of the building, designed the section on Pine Avenue so that it would not overwhelm the houses just east of it, yet would be easily recognisable as part of the Pathology Institute. On the other hand, the wing on University Street, right across from the imposing Royal Victoria Hospital, is on a grander scale to show the connection with that institution; it contains the main labs and the autopsy lecture theatre. Many windows, including skylights, were included in the layout to provide plenty of light in the labs. By the 1960s, the Pathological Institute had outgrown its original home. At this time, the firm of Ross, Fish, and Duschenes was commissioned to construct a much larger wing to the northeast of the older structure. This towering, new, concrete section, named the Lyman Duff Building, provides modern labs and facilities, but does not continue Nobbs' themes.
The Pulp and Paper Research Institute was built in 1927 by Percy Nobbs, Professor of Design at the School of Architecture at the time and architect of many other campus projects. This sturdy, three-storey stone structure, located on University Street just north of the Otto Maass Chemistry Building, nicely reflects Nobbs' 1931 extension to RVC just across the street. It demonstrates the wide range of ability of one architect. Originally, the Institute was the home of the Cellulose Chemistry Department of McGill, the Pulp and Paper Division of the government's Forest Products Laboratories, and the research labs of the Pulp and Paper Association, all involved in the advancement of study of wood fibres. Large pulp mills and other mechanical equipment were installed in the building. The funding of the Institute was plentiful as it was backed by industry and the government. Many fine discoveries were made there, for instance, a means for mass producing artificial vanillin flavouring, found in many food products today. The Institute was also very active in making various strengths and types of paper during World War II. McGill has allowed many graduate researchers in Chemistry to earn their degrees here and so the University has benefited from the Institute as well. Today the Pulp and Paper Research Institute continues its work and still shares its space with the Faculties of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

Pratte and Troy
Wong Building

Robert Findlay
The Martlet House, home of the Department of Development and Alumni Relations and McGill Graduates' Society, was once located on University Street, but, in 1971, it moved to Mountain Street. This new address was originally built in 1925 by Robert Findlay for Alice Hallward. The stone house features high pitched roofs on the exterior and elegant wood details on the interior. When the Graduates' Society began its occupancy, the interior was renovated to some degree, but many of the finely crafted details were left untouched.
Purvis Hall was built in 1907 for Sir Mortimer B. Davis, founder of the Imperial Tobacco Company. He commissioned John McGregor and Robert Findlay, the designer of the Sun Life Building, for the project. This Classical, French Beaux Arts style mansion, constructed of Indiana limestone, has a symmetrical facade decorated with carved stone and intricate iron work beneath which it conceals an innovative steel frame and reinforced concrete floors. Each floor was planned around a central hall and was as decorative as the exterior, but with more of a sense of warmth. It featured such details as carved stair rails and chandeliers, custom made furniture, and a beautiful botanical conservatory enclosed in glass, a popular feature of Square Mile houses. In 1935, the industrialist Arthur B. Purvis bought the house and remodeled it. He had several ornate ceilings and a Renaissance-style fireplace removed. After Purvis died in an air crash in 1941, the house was bestowed upon McGill in his memory by John W. McConnell, a major benefactor of the University. Findlay was again hired, this time to renovate the house, now called Purvis Hall, for academic use while preserving as much of its original detail and charm as possible. The upper floors were converted into office and classroom spaces, the ground floor became a reading room, and the basement was transformed into stacks. The School of Commerce (now the Faculty of Management) occupied Purvis Hall until 1973, at which point it was given to the McGill University Press and the Arctic Institute. Today it is designated for use by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and still retains much of its original decor.

Robert Findlay and John McGregor
Purvis Hall was built in 1907 for Sir Mortimer B. Davis, founder of the Imperial Tobacco Company. He commissioned John McGregor and Robert Findlay, the designer of the Sun Life Building, for the project. This Classical, French Beaux Arts style mansion, constructed of Indiana limestone, has a symmetrical facade decorated with carved stone and intricate iron work beneath which it conceals an innovative steel frame and reinforced concrete floors. Each floor was planned around a central hall and was as decorative as the exterior, but with more of a sense of warmth. It featured such details as carved stair rails and chandeliers, custom made furniture, and a beautiful botanical conservatory enclosed in glass, a popular feature of Square Mile houses. In 1935, the industrialist Arthur B. Purvis bought the house and remodeled it. He had several ornate ceilings and a Renaissance-style fireplace removed. After Purvis died in an air crash in 1941, the house was bestowed upon McGill in his memory by John W. McConnell, a major benefactor of the University. Findlay was again hired, this time to renovate the house, now called Purvis Hall, for academic use while preserving as much of its original detail and charm as possible. The upper floors were converted into office and classroom spaces, the ground floor became a reading room, and the basement was transformed into stacks. The School of Commerce (now the Faculty of Management) occupied Purvis Hall until 1973, at which point it was given to the McGill University Press and the Arctic Institute. Today it is designated for use by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and still retains much of its original decor.

Ross and Macdonald
The Wesleyan Theological College was built on the northwest corner of University and Milton Streets in 1913-14 by the firm Ross and Macdonald, replacing an earlier building dating from 1866. Its purpose was to house the students of the College and provide classroom space for them. The College, renamed the United Theological College in 1929, was one of many theological schools once associated with McGill. In 1945, the United Theological College sold its building to McGill for one dollar and the building was renamed Wilson Hall after Morris Wilson, once a chancellor of the University. At this time, just after World War II, McGill required significantly more residence space and Wilson Hall was suited to this purpose. In 1962, this gabled, brick structure was transformed into the Schools of Nursing and Social Work and still serves this function today.
In 1872, McGill erected a building just east of the Arts Building for the Faculty of Medicine. It had a neo-Classical facade and was built of Montreal limestone and so blended very well with the rest of the campus. To accommodate the Faculty of Medicine's growing enrolment and needs, the Medical Building was expanded in 1885, 1894, and 1900, creating, in the end, a long structure of many sections. On April 16, 1907, fire broke out in the Medical Building and all but the 1894 extension was destroyed including many valuable papers and records. Fortunately, Lord Strathcona, always a friend to the University in times of need, immediately offered to erect a new structure on a new site for the homeless faculty. This edifice, named the Strathcona Medical Building, still graces the campus today. McGill's Department of Biology had outgrown its quarters in the 1920s and so, in 1922, McGill commissioned the firm of Ross and Macdonald to erect a new Biology Building on the site of the Old Medical Building, which had burned. The new Montreal limestone building was more functional than ornamental, but the McGill crest placed over the main entrance was capped by a frog to signify the purpose of the structure. To the west of the Biology Building a small brick structure was constructed to serve as the animal house; a conservatory was erected to the north. In 1965, the Department of Biology required more modern labs and facilities and still more space. McGill responded to this need by building theStewart Biological Sciences Building on Dr. Penfield Avenue. Shortly after this, Old Biology Building was renovated to become the present James Administration Building, named after F. Cyril James, one of McGill's principals. It now houses the Department of Physical Resources and the offices of the principal, vice-principal, registrar, and cashier. The animal house has been converted into the Department of Admissions, and the conservatory has been dismantled.
In 1932, the Montreal Neurological Institute was constructed just north of the Pathological Institute by the firm of Ross and Macdonald, who also designed the Old Biology Building. This structure, considered a part of the Royal Victoria Hospital complex, continues the ideas of the Hospital's architecture and is on the same scale. It was expanded in 1945 by the firm of Fetherstonhaugh, Durnford, and Bolton, who were responsible for several other projects on the McGill campus such as Douglas Hall.

Saucier
Elizabeth Wirth Music Building

Sir Andrew Taylor
The Redpath Library was bestowed upon McGill in 1893 due to the beneficence of Peter Redpath, owner of Redpath Sugar and one of Montreal's leading citizens at that time, and his wife Grace Wood. The couple also donated the Redpath Museum, located just northeast of the library. This was a very timely gift since, prior to this building, all the University's acquisitions had resided in Molson Hall, the west wing of the Arts Building. The University had begun to rapidly expand in the 1890's and all the rooms in Arts were needed as lecture spaces. The first librarian of Redpath was Charles H. Gould who initiated the Library School and the Traveling Libraries Program which lent books to towns not fortunate enough to have their own library. He was one of the most prominent and pioneering librarians in North America and from 1908 to 1909 was made president of the American Library Association. The architect of this Richardsonian Romanesque building was Sir Andrew Taylor, born in 1825, who hailed from Edinburgh and had been educated at the Royal Academy in London. His wife was related to Sir William Dawson, the current principal, and he himself was a member of the Redpath family. Redpath Library was one of six edifices commissioned from Taylor for the McGill campus. In designing this structure, Taylor put its function, layout, and special needs ahead of its proportion and ornamentation. The building was considered one of the most innovative of its time. Taking into account the purpose of the building, he proposed that the stacks be defined by a steel frame and grids with thick glass floors to allow the light to pass through all three floors while making the whole fireproof, an amazing feat for 1893. A fire proof door separated the stacks from the main library and reading room which had floors of terra cotta and a roof of slate and copper. The only wood used was in the massive, oak beams that supported the upper floors and were capped at either end by fearsome dragon heads both inside and outside the building. Although the stacks were very thoroughly designed, the reading room was not as well thought out. The high stone walls echoed even the smallest whisper, making it necessary to forbid conversation of any sort, although there was apparently a considerable amount of traffic in note passing. The extensive use of stained glass windows kept out much of the natural light. The chandeliers hung from the high ceiling and the reading lamps could not compensate enough for the lack of light. The entrance to the building was grandiose, yet it opened onto the reading room which caused further disturbance to the students within. Taylor was criticized, even in his time, for creating an unused tower over the front entrance of the building, yet it gave the building a look of dignity and importance appropriate to a university campus. There is a considerable amount of ornament about the Redpath Library, even though Taylor's primary concern was with its function. Mrs. Grace Redpath donated a large amount of stained glass which she commissioned from Clayton and Bell in London, England. Poetry, the Fine Arts, and Music are the subject of the three large lancets in the east. Homer and Virgil are among the poets depicted, the writers include Shakespeare and Molliere, artists from Zeuxis to Michelangelo and Rubens to Wren are shown, and Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner stand with many other composers. The five lancets in the west above the balcony represent Law, History, Philosophy, Astronomy, and Medicine. Several wood and stone carvings exist on the timbers and exterior walls. Strange creatures and gargoyles adorn the roof at the ends of the beams. Two in the interior are portraits of Peter Redpath and Sir Andrew Taylor themselves. The outer walls, built of Montreal limestone in fitting with the rest of the campus, have the symbols of the Four Evangelists carved onto them to remind students of the highest possible wisdom. On the south facade are the crests of two major publishing companies, one represented by a swan, the other by a dolphin. Over the door is the Redpath crest, an ostrich holding a key. Between 1900 and 1901, Taylor extended the already full stacks at the request of Mrs. Grace Redpath. In 1921 the library was again expanded, this time by Percy Nobbs and George Taylor Hyde. Their expansion fit in very well with Taylor's style, unlike the later expansions which provide much more space, but do not even attempt to continue Taylor's idea. From 1952 to 1954 the firm of McDougall, Fleming and Smith extended the library to the south creating several large new reading areas with glass walls on the main floor, and room on other floors for several special libraries, such as the Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (now the Blacker-Wood Library of Biology) and the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art. When McLennan Library Was erected just south of Redpath in 1969, the main floor of the 1952 addition to the library was extended to create a walkway between the two buildings. In constructing the 1952 expansion to Redpath, the east wall of the Nobbs and Hyde 1921 projection was entirely enclosed and the use of Taylor's reading room as part of the library came to an end. At this time, the floor of the Taylor's elegant room was redone in wood, the tables were cleared away, and the reading room was reopened as Redpath Hall, an auditorium for the University used today mainly for music recitals and receptions. In 1981, a replica of a French Renaissance organ was donated to the hall to emphasize its new musical role and can still be heard regularly during the year.
The Macdonald Physics Building was constructed in 1893 by Sir Andrew Taylor, who designed several of the University's projects of the 1890's, and his partners at that time Morley Hogle and Huntley Davis. It was a gift of Sir William Macdonald, the donor of many other edifices on campus including Macdonald Engineering, Macdonald Chemistry, and the Old Student Union (now the McCord Museum). As with many of his other projects, Taylor took into account the function of the building before its ornament, though the latter was not ignored. Knowing the nature of Physics experiments and the current needs of the field, he built the entire edifice using only wood, masonry, and copper, bronze and brass for the nails and fixtures. No iron or steel was used throughout, even in the radiators, to keep magnetic interference at a minimum. The interior is of heavy brick and is constructed in large arches, many of which have since been filled in. Many labs and much apparatus were originally provided for the study of electricity, light, heat, and the elements. This Richardsonian Romanesque structure has an irregular shape, typical of this picturesque style, with a large tower dominating the northwest corner, yet a symmetrical south facade. It is ornamented in subtle ways by carvings and mottoes placed around the exterior and interior. The portico of what was once the main entrance has two columns stating "Power" and "Knowledge", two necessities of accomplishing any work within the walls. The entrance hall fireplace has a mantelpiece declaring "Prove All Things". In May, 1903, this motto was challenged by a young Physics professor, Ernest Rutherford. He published and won the Nobel Prize for profound discoveries derived from experiments conducted in the Macdonald Physics Building, concerning the nature of radioactivity and the atom, an event that would have awed both Macdonald and Taylor. Some of the equipment and personal effects of the famous scientist until recently resided in a museum on the top floor. These were moved to the new Ernest Rutherford Physics Building. A fire broke out in the optics lab in December, 1924 causing $20,000 of damage; fortunately, the edifice was rescued. In 1930, a meteorology station was added to the top of the building and in 1941 a fourth floor was added. In 1982, Taylor's building no longer met the needs of the modern Physics department. It was at this point transformed into the Macdonald-Stewart Library Building of Physical Sciences and Engineering. Its sturdy structure has been well adapted to house many thousands of volumes and it is still regularly filled with physicists doing research.
Ardvarna was built in 1897 for Andrew Allan, a partner in the Allan Line Steamship Company, by the famous Montreal architects Edward and William Maxwell. In 1906, Sir Henry Vincent Meredith, president of the Bank of Montreal, married Isabella Brenda Allan, the daughter of Andrew Allan and the niece of Hugh Allan, who lived at Ravenscrag. At this time, Ardvarna, a turreted, brick mansion, bordering on Richardsonian Romanesque, was given to the newly-weds by Andrew Allan. Sir Vincent died in 1929, but Lady Meredith continued to occupy the house, at the corner of Peel Street and Pine Avenue, until 1941 at which point she gave it to the Royal Victoria Hospital to use as a nurses' residence. McGill acquired the use of Ardvarna in 1975, but shared it with the Hospital for many years. In 1990, McGill's Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Law and the McGill Pulmonary Research Lab were both housed in Ardvarna, now called the Lady Meredith House. On January 7, 1990, the edifice was broken into and the old mansion, one of the few left with its interior details intact, was set on fire. Fortunately, the fire department and McGill responded quickly and there was minimal structural damage. McGill decided to renovate Ardvarna to its original elegance and hired Julia Gersovitz, a McGill graduate and professor, and her firm, Gersovitz, Becker, and Moss for the project.

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Dilcoosha, a Hindustani word meaning "The Heart's Delight", was built on the corner of Sherbrooke and McTavish Streets for Jesse Joseph, an entrepreneur who had interests in several Canadian companies. The mansion was designed in an exotic style called Egyptian Renaissance and possessed a lavish interior. In 1904, Joseph died and in 1909, Sir William Macdonald, always a true friend to the University, purchased the house and presented it to McGill. During the first World War, Dilcoosha served as a headquarters for the COTC, who used the long upstairs hall as a target range. After the War, in 1919, McGill inherited in full the collections of David McCord, a municipal lawyer and avid acquirer of rare objects associated with Canadian history. This assemblage is known today as the McCord Museum of Canadian History. Dilcoosha, then vacant, was an ideal place to house and display the Canadian artifacts and so the McCord Museum came into being. In 1955, Dilcoosha was demolished as a result of several structural problems and the McCord Museum was moved to the Hodgeson House on Drummond and Dr. Penfield. Today, the McLennan Library, erected in 1967, stands on the site of Joseph's old mansion and the McCord Museum resides in the Old Student Union Building, designed by Percy Erskine Nobbs, on Sherbrooke Street.
The Prince of Wales Terrace, named in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales, was commissioned in 1860 by Sir George Simpson. The prestigious Terrace, once located on the north side of Sherbrooke Street at the corner of McTavish Street, consisted of a row of nine houses which presented a unified, Montreal limestone facade in the Classical Greek style. Doric columns, pilasters, window details, and pedimented porticoes were repeated uniformly on the exterior of each house with a pediment emphasizing the centre of the structure. The east and west ends were of brick and did not continue the themes of the facade. The interiors of all of the houses were as elegant as the exterior. In 1890, Sir William Macdonald, one of McGill's greatest benefactors, took up residence at number 3, Prince of Wales Terrace, which remained in his family until the building's destruction. Another resident of the Terrace was Sir William Peterson, a principal of McGill for whom Peterson Hall was named. In the late 1950s, the two easternmost units of the Prince of Wales Terrace were demolished to make way for the Royal Embassy Hotel. In 1971, McGill, who by that time owned the remaining houses, decided to use the site for the new Samuel Bronfman Building, and so the Prince of Wales Terrace was demolished.
In 1856 Charles Smallwood was welcomed in the McGill community as an Honorary Professor of Meteorology. Although he did not possess a degree in this specific field, he had been recording the weather and rainfall every six hours each day since 1833. So dedicated was he to this empirical study that in 1846 he had built an observatory for himself at his home in St. Martin near Laval. He was thus more than qualified to instruct students on the subject of Meteorology. In 1863, McGill built a stone tower on a bluff just behind the Molson wing of the Arts Building and Professor Smallwood's instruments were incorporated within. In the 1870's, C. H. MacLeod was recruited to assist the aging Professor Smallwood with his studies and, after Smallwood's death in 1873, MacLeod continued to telegraph the daily report to Toronto's Canadian Meteorological Service and took over Smallwood's studies. A few years later, McGill attached a house to the Observatory for MacLeod, now a professor, and his family. In 1874, MacLeod determined the Observatory's exact longitude using telegraph signals and was subsequently asked to wire the time daily to the railways, harbours, and government buildings in Ottawa. All of Canada set their watches by McGill's time for many years and the railways were still using the signal in the 1960's. Unfortunately, in 1963 McGill needed to expand the Arts Building and the Observatory was demolished to be replaced by the Stephen Leacock Building. Set into the floor of this new concrete edifice are a copper square and a plaque on the wall that commemorate the Observatory and its achievements.
Rupert's Terrace, almost as prominent a building as the Prince of Wales Terrace to the south, was built in 1862 on McTavish Street where it meets Sherbrooke. It consisted of eight row houses, of which the northernmost three were demolished by Alfred Baumgarten when he constructed his house on McTavish Street in 1886. In 1990, the southernmost two houses were taken down to allow space for the new Bookstore. The remaining three houses are today occupied by McGill's Department of East Asian Studies, the Arts Faculty, and the McGill-Queen's University Press.
In approximately 1963, the Marionopolis CEGEP constructed a new home for itself on Peel Street at the corner of Dr. Penfield Avenue. In 1971, McGill bought this edifice, renamed the Powell Student Services Building, in honour of Raymond E. Powell, a chancellor of McGill and president of the Aluminum Company of Canada. This three-storey, steel and concrete framed structure is faced with brick. Due to the number of extensions the building has undergone, the interior is filled with many staircases and winding passages. Several of McGill's student services are located in the Powell Building, including the health clinic and student counseling, financial aid, career and placement, and off-campus housing.
In 1912, Albert E. Holt, a member of the Royal Trust Company, built a house on the Square Mile on Pine Avenue. Holt sold his Classic Edwardian mansion to Sir Edward Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and an exercise enthusiast, in 1924. In 1946, McGill bought the house, renamed it Beatty Hall, and gave it to the Graduate School of Nursing, which did not change any interior details. Today, Beatty Hall is still an elegant edifice and is occupied by the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Brown Student Services Building
Trottier Building
Parasitology Institute
Macdonald-Stewart Building
Tadja Hall

Victor Roy and John Hopkins
In 1863, Sir Hugh Allan, the Scottish founder and president of the Allan Lines Shipping Company, commissioned Victor Roy and John Hopkins to construct a house that reflected his wealth and power. This Italianate, villa-style mansion was named Ravenscrag after a Scottish castle and was located at the top of McTavish Street with an imposing view over the entire city. The house, which is divided into many wings, had an asymmetric facade dominated by a large, solid tower which dominates the main entrance. The thirty-four room interior featured a different architectural style in each room. The entrance hall and dining room had Italian themes, the ballroom was French, and the oak-paneled library with ornate furniture was distinctly Victorian. Since the Allans were interested in horses, the fourteen acre estate possessed one of the finest stables on the Square Mile, the entrance of which was marked by a sculpted horse's head. After Sir Hugh Allan died in 1882, his son and daughter-in-law, Sir Montagu and Marguerite, respectively, inherited Ravenscrag. They enlarged the house, redecorated in a more elegant and lavish style, employed several live-in servants, and filled the stable with prize thoroughbreds at the request of Sir Montagu, the president of the Jockey Club. After Sir Montagu's death, Lady Allan gave Ravenscrag to the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1940. It was renamed the Allan Memorial Institute in 1943. To serve the present needs as a psychiatric hospital and research institute, the interior of the building has been altered and many additions have been made to the exterior.

Werlman and Guy
Over the years, the McGill Bookstore has had several homes, including a house that once existed on the site where McConnell Engineering stands today. In 1990, the University commissioned the firm of Werlman and Guy to build a permanent edifice for the Bookstore on McTavish Street. This three-storey building has a concrete frame that is faced with Montreal limestone in keeping with the rest of the campus. In its size, shape, colour, and placement, the Bookstore blends with the neighboring structures and continues the facade of McTavish Street in a contemporary manner. The entrance and the southeast corner are enclosed in glass and serve as excellent display areas. The bookstore is now located in the campus store on Sherbrooke.

William Thomas
In the 1880's, Duncan McIntyre, one of the wealthy founders of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, commissioned William Thomas to design a mansion for him at the top of Drummond Street, the heart of the affluent Square Mile. The house, which could easily be pictured on a misty moor, was Romanesque Scottish Baronial in style and featured several conical towers, a steeply pitched roof, and a large, square central tower which dominated the main entrance. Craguie, as it has been named, was demolished in 1930 and in 1947, the estate was donated to McGill by the McIntyre family. For years, the site was called McIntyre Park, but, in 1965, McGill needed the land for two new buildings. At this point both the McIntyre Medical Sciences and Stewart Biological Sciences Buildings were erected and still occupy the site today.