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Originally Posted by J.OT13
I suspect that as well. The restoration looks far more like your typical Montreal heritage building. Red brick is seldom seen is Montreal.
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If you read my post above, showing the pic of the burned out theatre next door, I think it is pretty much proven that the materials used in restoration are pretty close to its original appearance in that photo (the small slice of wall visible in the left side of the photo, showing stone-looking finishes).
I'm also curious about whether the finishing materials were actually cut stone, or concrete moulded to look like stone. In Halifax (see link to blog post below) in the early 1900s, cast concrete blocks, imitating more expensive and labour-intensive cut stone), were used on some buildings, such as the one in the pic below, on Barrington Street, built in 1907 (for example):
Link below for more info:
https://halifaxbloggers.ca/noticedin...ncrete-blocks/