Read Building
- Title:
- Read Building
- Address:
- 420 rue de La Gauchetière ouest
- Type of Building:
- light manufacturing
- Architectural Firm or Partnership:
- Ross & MacFarlane
- Building Materials:
- reinforced concrete frame; brick exterior; Montreal grey stone base; Indiana limestone trim
- Date Construction Began:
- 1912
- Date Construction Completed:
- 1913
- Sources:
-
“Read Building.” 1912-1913. .
Location: Ross & Macdonald Archive. Centre canadien d’architecture/ Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Note: Folder contains a property plan (1912); preliminary and working drawings of floor and roof plans (1912); floor plan alterations for tenants (1913); elevations from Jurors St., lane, and La Gauchetière (1912); layout of clubrooms for the commercial traveller’s club on eighth floor (1913); detail drawings of partitions, doors, entrance stairs (1912).
“Alterations to Read Building.” 1920. .
Location: Ross & Macdonald Archive. Centre canadien d’architecture/ Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Note: Folder contains drawings for new coal chute.
“Alterations to Read Building.” 1938-1940. .
Location: Ross & Macdonald Archive. Centre canadien d’architecture/ Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Note: Folder contains preliminary drawings for ninth floor (1940) and motor generating room (1929); renting plans of basement, first and typical floor plans (1940); mechanical drawings of alterations to electric lighting system, transformer room details, riser diagrams (1938).
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Read Building", Industrial Architecture of Montreal, McGill Libraries
- Reference Link:
- https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/industrial/items/in033.html
Rights
- Image Rights:
- Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/