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Old Posted Mar 6, 2021, 4:56 PM
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I love those bulky, tall and old brick industrial buildings.

Not quite high enough to be a skyscraper, but heavy on grit, the Dow Brewery, Montreal

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I've ventured inside for urban exploring (about 20 years ago....I think the site is being revamped).
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Ottawa's first "skyscraper", the 9 storey Hope Building, also known as Bible House, was designed by W.E. Nofke and completed in 1910.

Ottawa Ontario - Canada - Bible House AKA Hope Building - Sparks Street Mall by Onasill ~ Bill, on Flickr

More on the building: https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_...g.aspx?id=2550
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Old Posted Mar 6, 2021, 5:33 PM
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I love those bulky, tall and old brick industrial buildings.

Not quite high enough to be a skyscraper, but heavy on grit, the Dow Brewery, Montreal

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I've ventured inside for urban exploring (about 20 years ago....I think the site is being revamped).
I don't see why it couldn't be called a skyscraper in the same vein as its contemporaries were. It's a steel structure covered in brick, is 40m tall and has ten floors. It's basically a 1920 St-James street banking tower except that it's insides are dedicated to brewing beer.

I've also explored that one extensively about 10 years ago, during the dying days of the Montreal urbex scene. A truly fascinating structure.
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Old Posted Mar 7, 2021, 1:27 AM
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The best brick and mortar (city hall) skyscraper of all time

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Old Posted Mar 7, 2021, 1:41 AM
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Here are a few more from Halifax.

The Victoria General:


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Repeatedly renovated over the years and not well maintained. Originally looked closer to this:


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The Ralston Building:


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This gives a better impression of how it fit in with the city. It was given a not so great do-over in the 80's or 90's then demolished a few years ago despite being a federal heritage building.
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This one's kind of unusual, the Roy, now demolished too. It was 7 floors on the Granville Street side but it used to have a small taller section that was removed or renovated sometime before the rest of the building came down. This 50's era streetscape is pretty much unrecognizable.


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These ones don't really look like highrises at all but they're about 7 or 8 storeys from the Bedford Row side and they are in the same height range as 10-12 storeys of the modern buildings nearby.


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The Lord Nelson

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Old Posted Mar 7, 2021, 1:46 AM
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I LOVE the Dow Brewery. Gorgeously gritty.
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Old Posted Mar 7, 2021, 5:03 PM
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Here's a better photo showing the little Roy block "tower" plus Dominion Public Building, circa 1940's:


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Another showing the Dominion Public Building tower and cupolas of the customs house and post office:


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I've ventured inside for urban exploring (about 20 years ago....I think the site is being revamped).


We must have crossed paths among those echoing vats in the dark!
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For those who don't know, that is the old Saint John General Hospital in Saint John NB.

It disappeared in an impressive controlled implosion about 20 years ago.
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Such a shame! I saw that building probably right before it was imploded back in 2005. I remember seeing it on the hill and thinking how cool it looked. Why did they destroy it?
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Good lord. Canada just straight up sucks at preserving our historical architecture.
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This one barely lasted 30 years in Montreal. Hotel Laurentian.

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38 years after opening, this one was destroyed, also in Montreal. Architects' Building.

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This building was derelict and in very shabby shape before being demolished in the early 2000s (also Montreal). Drummond Court Building.

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Demolished. Montreal. Transportation Building.

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Demolished. Montreal. Kellert Building

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Demolished. Montreal. Queen's Hotel. Was a rotting shell for decades before finally being destroyed in the 90s.

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Demolished. Montreal. Windsor Hotel. A newer wing (not pictured) survives.

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Such a shame! I saw that building probably right before it was imploded back in 2005. I remember seeing it on the hill and thinking how cool it looked. Why did they destroy it?
I remember it well, standing grandly on the hill as you drove into town. It was really impressive.

I don't recall the details, but I think it was taken down because it no longer had a function as a hospital, having been replaced by a newer facility, and nobody had a business case for repurposing it. So away it went.

IIRC, the dome fell to the ground, undamaged, and still exists as an ornamental fixture in Saint John:

https://goo.gl/maps/JmWB9dHbEpXhsK4Z7
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I visited Trois-Rivieres the other week, it is Quebec's 6th largest city (if you include the Montreal suburbs). This is a truly brick and mortar gritty industrial city. The city reminds me a lot of a former Montreal industrial streetcar suburb like Verdun, or Lachine.

Unlike Saint-John, it still has it's sole pre-war 'scraper. The edifice Ameau, which isn't in the best of shape, and is mostly vacant. It is 36m tall and has 10 floors.

Ameau_Building_Mauricie_Series_08 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


Ameau_Building_Close_Up_Mauricie_Series_09 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

It's position in the skyline:

Trois-Rivieres_Skyline_02_Mauricie_Series_02 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

I sent this photo to my montreal friends with no context, and everybody replied by asking me why i sent them a random pic of a street in their neighbourhood.

Verdun_but_it's_Trois-Rivieres_Mauricie_Series_04 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr
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The Windsor Hotel was destroyed by a fire. They could only save the annex.
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I had a post about the Ameau Building on Page 1. You can see in the vintage pic that the street level retail floor used to be a lot less ugly; the industrial-style brown siding should obviously be eliminated. (I would hope the original materials are still there under it.)

I linked to a CBC article about someone somewhere maybe having a project for the building, we'll see what happens. It's been mostly empty for a long time.
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Little shot from my neck of the woods - Cornwallis Inn in Kentville, NS.


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If we're to include demolished high-rises, then we could also add the old Toronto Star Building: (built 1929, demolished 1972 for First Canadian Place)


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...rontoStar3.jpg



Temple Building - the city's tallest when it was built in 1896. Demolished 1970 for a nondescript office tower:


https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/...ew=grid&Erp=20



Beard Building - only 7 stories, but it was also the city's tallest upon completion in 1984, and considered Toronto's first skyscraper. It was demolished by 1935:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_Building



Board of Trade Building. Built 1892, demolished 1958:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toront...Trade_Building



St. George Mansions. Built 1904, demolished 1960s(?):


https://www.blogto.com/city/2014/01/...ment_building/



Ford Hotel. Built 1928, demolished 1973:


https://www.blogto.com/city/2012/11/...ll_from_grace/



Dominion Building. Can't find the construction date, but it was destroyed by fire in 1977:


https://acotoronto.ca/show_building.php?BuildingID=160



Eaton's Factory Complex. Multiple buildings either torn down for the Eaton Centre in 1973 or subsequently destroyed by fire in 1977:


http://www.myseumoftoronto.com/progr...he-innovators/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton%27s_Annex
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