1908 – Le Linton Apartments, Montreal, Quebec

Le Linton was designed by Samuel Arnold Finley and David Jerome Spence. Its construction began in 1907 and the building was completed in 1908. Fionished externally in terra-cotta, it was Montreal’s largest apartment building upon completion, appealling to well-to-do tenants.

“There is no mistaking the apartment house character of this building. The sparkling effect of the drawing will find expression, in the executed work, in the variegated surface of brick and stone, got by using quoins for every angle and by carrying through the head and sill courses. The wrought iron and glass at the entrance contribute to the appearance of elegant comfort.

The building is said to be without light shafts; for which: purpose it appears, from the perspective, to have an 7 plan, which is the main motive of the design. The floors and partitions are of terra cotta; wood is used only for flooring, doors and trimming. Other features worth noting, in the description of the building in one of the Montreal newspapers, are the abundance of bathrooms; utilization of the basement for a heating and ventilating plant, as also for fire-proof store rooms for tenants’ property and a garage for their motors; and cold storage closets in the pantries, so that no ice need be brought into the building.”
Canadian Architect and Builder, April 1906

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