1915 – Molsons Bank, Ontario Street, Montreal, Canada
No longer a bank branch but an attractive building on a prominent junction site.
“St. Lawrence and Ontario Street. — An awkward shaped site, with the problem of having to place the entrance on the corner and that to the upper floors offices on the narrow side of the lot. A mezzanine floor, containing three rooms, for the bank messenger, being placed in line with the front of the vault, the banking room is given a square end on this face. The screen to the manager’s office also forms a right-angle termination to the banking room at the opposite end. The ground floor is 19 feet high, which gives sufTicient height for a vault nine feet high and messenger’s rooms over. Two of the three openings in end wall between banking room and mezzanine give the bank’s messenger an opportunity for watching the office when closed, the third opening acts as a ventilating panel. The building is of fireproof construction throughout, with a reinforced concrete skeleton frame and terra cotta partitions and furrings. The walls above the base are of Indiana limestone, with the base itself of Queenston limestone, the stairs to the offices have marble treads and cast iron strings, railings, newel posts and carriages and oak handrail.”
Construction, November 1916
Published March 8, 2026
