Place Viger

Ville-Marie, Canada

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Place Viger, a grand railway station and hotel in Montreal's Ville-Marie district, was constructed in 1898 as a unique combination building—the only such hotel-station hybrid in Canada at the time. Designed by Bruce Price for the Canadian Pacific Railway in the French château style, the structure employed brick, stone, and steel in its imposing form. The building anchored a strategic downtown location near City Hall, the financial district, and the port, serving as the northern and eastern terminus for CP passenger lines. Its lower levels housed the railway station while luxurious hotel accommodations occupied the upper floors, and guests could enjoy the adjacent Viger Square gardens. The onset of the Great Depression and Montreal's commercial shift northwestward proved fatal to the enterprise: the hotel closed in 1935 and the station in 1951. The city acquired the building, stripped its interiors for anonymous office use, and renamed it Édifice Jacques-Viger, in reference to Montreal's first mayor.