Windsor Station (Montreal)
| Windsor Station | |
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| Gare Windsor | |
Windsor Station in 2006
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| 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°WCoordinates: 45°29′50.86″N 73°34′7.18″W / 45.4974611°N 73.5686611°W |
| 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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