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Maisonneuve
Maisonneuve Review
World War I and the Depression killed early 20th-century plans to turn this industrial center into a model city with broad boulevards, grand public buildings, and fine homes, but a few fragments of that dream have survived the passage of time, just three blocks south of the Olympic site.
The magnificent beaux arts building, site of the old public market, which has a 20-foot-tall bronze statue of a farm woman, stands at the northern end of tree-lined avenue Morgan. Farmers and butchers have moved into the modern building next door that houses the Marché Maisonneuve, which has become one of the city's major markets along with Marché Jean-Talon and Marche Atwater. The old market is now a community center and the site of summer shows and concerts.
Monumental staircases and a heroic rooftop sculpture embellish the public baths across the street. The Théâtre Denise Pelletier, at the corner of rue Ste-Catherine Est and rue Morgan, has a lavish Italianate interior; Fire Station No. 1, at 4300 rue Notre-Dame Est, was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in suburban Chicago; and the sumptuously decorated Église Très-Saint-Nom-de-Jésus has one of the most powerful organs in North America. The 60-acre Parc Maisonneuve, stretching north of the botanical garden, is a lovely place for a stroll.
- Address: Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Montréal, QC, H1X 2B1 | Map It
- Metro Pie-IX or Viau.
- Location: Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
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