Laurentian Hotel
Introduction The Laurentian Hotel during its construction in 1947The Laurentian Hotel in 1967The '''Laurentian Hotel''' was a 1000-room hotel on Dorchester Street, now René Lévesque Boulevard, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The hotel was built in 1948 and demolished in 1978.The building was designed by Charles Davis Goodman, who was the architect of a number of prominent Streamline Moderne structures in the city, including the Jewish General Hospital and Bens De Luxe Delicatessen & Restaurant.The Canadian Pacific proposed a new development for the site of the hotel in the late 1970s, and it was subsequently demolished in 1978.At the time, it was the largest hotel ever demolished in Canada. The La Laurentienne Building now stands on the site of the former hotel.
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