ART DECO MONTREAL

I have found over the years that we have a handful of art deco buildings in Montreal, and its style always makes me think of New York City and the grand Empire State building. The first building I ever recognized in this style was the Aldred Building in the Old Port, and later I came to realize that the Atwater market and the University of Montreal were a prominent example as well. Later, I found a way to walk to work and pass Pierre Elliot Trudeau's house called Maison Ernest Cormier, on Pine Avenue, which has an exquisite standing female motif that echoes a sitting one with caduceus (medical cross with snake) on the Montreal General Hospital.

Northwest entrance to Livingstone Hall off Cedar Avenue

Consulting an online list of others, I have started to get to know a few others. I will post my pictures as I gather them.
Here are some more links I am finding as I research online.

http://artdecobuildings.blogspot.ca/2012/11/crescent-building-montreal.html

http://artdecomontreal.com/buildings/

Montreal Botanical Gardens Administrative Pavillion

Drummond Medical Building - note the ironwork balcony and marquee, and the brick "crosses" under almost every window, and the ribbons of vertical brick interrupting the coupled columns of windows, so typical of the style.

Dominion Square Building, v
iew from Ste. Catherine Street. Classic design with insets to allow for more natural light. 

Beautiful doors

Exterior window with lantern 

Seahorses and shell motif in brass

Front lobby from 2nd floor

Amazing interior chandelier

Banister

Griffins in coloured interior motif

McGill's Roddick Gates' clock tower

Lady Amy Redpath Roddick was a writer of 17 books, and many are online, like The Romance of a Princess. She  donated the gates to McGill in memory of her husband, who was a physician and dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1901- 1908. They say she wanted a clock because he was a punctual man, but there are reports of all four clock faces showing different times!