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Windsor Station (Montreal)

Windsor Station
Gare Windsor
A view of Windsor Station Montreal.JPG
Windsor Station in 2006
General information
Type Office building, and formerly train station and Metro station
Architectural style Richardsonian Romanesque
Location Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Address 1160 (Formerly 1160 De la Gauchetière Street) (concourse),
1100 Avenue des Canadiens-de-Montréal (offices)
Coordinates 45°29′50.86″N 73°34′7.18″W / 45.4974611°N 73.5686611°W / 45.4974611; -73.5686611Coordinates: 45°29′50.86″N 73°34′7.18″W / 45.4974611°N 73.5686611°W / 45.4974611; -73.5686611
Construction started 1887
Completed 1889, 1916
Cost CA$ 2,000,000 (1888-89)
Owner Cadillac Fairview
Design and construction
Architect Bruce Price
Awards and prizes Heritage railway station (Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada)
Official name Windsor Station (Canadian Pacific) National Historic Site of Canada
Designated 1975
Designated 1990
Type Historic monument
Designated 2009

Windsor Station (French: Gare Windsor) is a former railway station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It used to be the city's Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station, and served as the headquarters of CPR from 1889 to 1996. It is bordered by Avenue des Canadiens-de-Montréal to the north, Peel Street to the east, Saint Antoine Street to the south and the Bell Centre to the west.

Windsor Station was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1975, and was designated a Heritage Railway Station in 1990, and a provincial historic monument in 2009.

The walls are gray limestone from a quarry in Montreal. Outside, the columns reach up to 7 feet (2.1 m) wide.

In 1887, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) began to build a railway station in Montreal, which would serve as its headquarters, three years after the completion of the Dalhousie Station in 1884. The Windsor Station project was entrusted to New York City architect Bruce Price, who chose a Romanesque Revival style for the building. Price had to submit four versions of his plans to satisfy the treasurer of CPR, before the project was accepted. It was constructed at a cost of $300,000 CAD, and the first trains departed February 4, 1889. It was known as the Windsor Street Station, named for the street on which it was located, Windsor Street (today Peel Street).

It was expanded for the first time from 1900 to 1903, and again from 1910 to 1913 by Canadian architects. The third expansion, in 1916, included a fifteen-storey tower which dramatically altered Montreal's skyline. The project was entrusted to the firm of brothers Edward and William Maxwell.


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