1916 – Customs Examining Warehouse, Montreal, Canada

“This building- was structurally finished some time ago, and is now nearly fully furnished, equipped and occupied, and, encased in grey granite from the Laurentians with Wallace sandstone to the upper stories, backed with plastic brick, with walls in places some nine feet thick, forms a massive and imposing structure. The present building constitutes rather less than half of a block, which, with the proposed new Customs ilouse, already planned, will occupy the whole of a city site bounded on all four sides and with frontages to four streets, with an overall length exceeding four hundred and sixty feet.”
Construction, July 1916

A large, eight-storey, stone-clad building, whose façades demonstrate the classical Beaux-Arts composition of base, columns and entablature. Windows of varying shapes that decrease in size and height at each storey are regularly arranged on the façades.

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