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Constructed from 1876 to 1878, the Windsor Hotel is one of Canada's most impressive buildings of the Second Empire style. The design of the hotel was entrusted to an American architect, William Boyington. The Windsor was considered the best hotel in all the Dominion; a magnificent nine-story structure of sandstone and granite offering palatial splendor with its gold-embossed lobby, six restaurants, two ballrooms, concert hall and 382 luxurious guest-rooms.
Windsor Hotel on Dominion Square, ca. 1878 Alexander Henderson, 1831-1913
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Windsor Hotel on Dominion Square, ca. 1878 Alexander Henderson, 1831-1913
MP-0000.1452.22, Notman Photographic Archives
©McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montréal

The original building of the Windsor Hotel was built in 1878. The hotel was established along the entire block of René-Lévesque (then Dorchester) Boulevard and Cypress Street, between Stanley and Peel (then Windsor) streets, where today is located the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce office tower.
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Grand Dining Room, 1878 Notman & Sandham
View-787.1, Notman Photographic Archives
©McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montréal
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Grand Promenade, 1878 Notman & Sandham
View-749.1, Notman Photographic Archives
©McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montréal

Canada's first Grand Hotel