Tour de la Banque Royale

Montreal, Canada

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Royal Bank Tower, located at 360 Saint-Jacques Street in Montreal, is a 22-storey neoclassical skyscraper completed in 1928 by the New York firm York and Sawyer in collaboration with the bank's chief architect, Sumner Godfrey Davenport. Rising 121 metres, it was upon completion the tallest building in the British Empire, the tallest structure in Canada, and notably surpassed Montréal's Notre-Dame Basilica, which stood nearly a century before. The bank, Canada's largest at the time, had commissioned the building after its original Saint-Jacques Street premises proved insufficient; to make way for this prestigious new headquarters, the Royal Bank acquired and demolished multiple properties between 1920 and 1926, including the ten-storey Bank of Ottawa building. Though the bank relocated its main office to Place Ville-Marie in 1962, it maintained a branch in the tower's impressive main hall in Old Montreal until 2012, when that branch moved to the nearby Tour de la Bourse. The building is part of a Quebec heritage property.