Industrial Architecture Montreal 
 
 

 

IN027

  L.-O. Grothé Building

2000, boul. St-Laurent;

Architect: Resther, Jean Baptiste
Building Type: factory
Materials: brick, steel and concrete
Completed: c. 1906
Restoration Architect: Riopel & Walsh (1983)
Note: Originally, the building was used by a cigar manufacturing company. In 1983 the building was "recycled" and now hosts mainly commercial units.

 

Images:
View, looking west, up boul. St-Laurent (1999)
Looking south-west, along rue Ontario (1999)

Sources:

Special number of the Dominion Illustrated devoted to Montreal, the Commercial Metropolis of Canada. Montréal: Sabiston Lithographic and Pub. Co., 1891. : 57
Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections. McGill University Library.
Note: Description of cigar business and old location at 21-23 St. Peter St.

Commission des Bien Culturels "Les chemins de la memoire." Quebec: Centre de documentation, Service de l'inventaire des biens culturels, 1991. : 70-71
Location: McGill University Library.
Visuals: exterior photo, drawing.
Note: Entry by Brian Cavanaugh, amenagiste, and Jacques Lachapelle, architect.

Communauté Urbaine de Montréal. Architecture Industrielle Montreal. Montréal: Le Service, 1982. : 54-55
Visuals: exterior photo.

Pinard, Guy. Montreal, son histoire, son architecture. Montreal: Les Editions La Presse, 1987. : 96-101
Visuals: exterior photo, map, exterior renderings.

 

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