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IN025

  The Grovers Building/Tooke Brothers Limited

640-644, rue de Courcelle;

Firm/Partnership: MacDuff & Lemieux
Building Type: factory, assembly plant
Begun: 1907
Completed: 1912?
Alteration Architect: MacDuff and Lemieux

 

Images:
View, looking west, from rue de Courcelle (1999)
View, looking west, from rue de Courcelle (1999)
View of east elevation (1999)
Detail of front elevation (1999)

Sources:

"Manufacture et agrandissement et modification d'une manufacture pour Tooke Brothers Company Ltd." 1907-1912. .
Location: Archives of Ludger and Paul M. Lemiex. Centre canadien d'architecture/ Canadian Centre For Architecture.
Note: Folder contains plans for the foundation, first and second floors (1907), elevations for the rear, lane facing, door, north and 18th street (1907), cross section (1907), plan for the boiler house (1909), plan for modifications and additions to factory foundations and lavatories (1912).

"Manufacture pour Tooke Brothers." 1899-1912. .
Location: Archives of Ludger and Paul M. Lemiex. Centre canadien d'architecture/ Canadian Centre For Architecture.
Note: Folder contains drawings for a new roof and plumbing alterations (1912), alterations to offices (1906), cross section of factory (1899), details of posts and beams, plans for foundation, first, second, third, and fourth floors, and roof (1899), drawing for entrance gates and fence (1899).

"Modification d'une manufacture pour Tooke Brothers Ltd." 1911-1912. .
Location: Archives of Ludger and Paul M. Lemiex. Centre canadien d'architecture/ Canadian Centre For Architecture.
Note: Folder contains drawings for additions to factory and offices (1912), alterations to entrance, boardrooms, and lavatories (1911).

"Modification de la nouvelle manufacture Tooke Brothers Ltd." 1912-1913. .
Location: Archives of Ludger and Paul M. Lemiex. Centre canadien d'architecture/ Canadian Centre For Architecture.
Note: Folder contains drawings and elevations for addition to factory (1912), plan for a garage (1912), drawing for alterations (1913).

Saint-Henri des tanneries: connaître Montréal par ses quartiers: exposition historique, Musée des arts décoratifs, le Chateau dufresne. Montréal: YMCA de Montréal, 1981. : 20

 

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