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Title:

Ives and Allen Company

Former Name:

H.R.Ives and Co.

Address:

261 rue Queen

Type of Building:

metalworking plant

Architect:

Hutchison, Alexander Cowper

Date Construction Began:

1864

Date Construction Completed:

1872

Date Demolished:

1997

Image Description:

View, looking north, shortly after demolition (1999)

Notes:

In the 1930s the building was occupied by a warehousing company and a textile company. The building was destroyed by fire in 1997.

Sources:

Industries of Canada. City of Montreal Historical and Descriptive Review. Montréal: Historical Publishing Co., 1886. : 105
Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections. McGill University Library.

Special number of the Dominion Illustrated devoted to Montreal, the Commercial Metropolis of Canada. Montréal: Sabiston Lithographic and Pub. Co., 1891. : 195
Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections. McGill University Library.
Visuals: exterior rendering.
Note: Describes layout of complex.

Montreal, The Metropolis of Canada, Illustrated. Montréal: Consolidated Illustrating Co., 1894. : 128-9
Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections. McGill University Library.

Les interets commerciaux de Montréal et Québec et leurs manufactures. Montréal: K.G.C. Huttemeyer, 1889. : 103-4
Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections. McGill University Library.
Visuals: exterior rendering.

Carey, Luc; Guy Mongrain and Sylvain Provost. Un Quartier en Mutation: Le Sud du Faubourg des Récollets, 1930-1996. Montréal: Société de développement de Montréal, 1996. : planche 7
Visuals: exterior photo.

Communauté Urbaine de Montréal. Architecture Industrielle Montreal. Montréal: Le Service, 1982. : 132-135
Visuals: exterior photo, exterior rendering.

DeVolpi, Charles P. Montreal Recueil Iconographique/ A Pictorial Record. Montréal: Dev-Sco Publications, 1963. : 197, 221
Visuals: exterior rendering.

Lehmann, Henry. “Recollets is site for art among the ruins.” . Montreal Gazette, 21 Jun 1997: J6

Malo, Pierre. “Le faubourg des Récollets: Projets de mise en valeur.” Montréal: McGill University, 1991. : 31
Visuals: exterior photo.
Note: Unpublished student paper.

Sauvons Montreal/Save Montreal. Recollets: Les quartiers du Centre-Ville du Montreal/ Montreal’s Downtown Neighbourhoods. Montréal: Sauvons Montréal/Save Montréal, 1977. : 32

Source

Preferred Citation:

"Ives and Allen Company", Industrial Architecture of Montreal, McGill Libraries

Reference Link:

https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/industrial/items/in015.html

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