Martlet House
Martlet House (formerly Seagram House) is a Scottish baronial style building at 1430 Peel Street in Downtown Montreal, Quebec. The building was completed in 1928 by architect David Jerome Spence, with additions in 1931, 1947 and 1955.[1]
Previously the Montreal headquarters of Seagram Company Ltd., the building was donated to McGill University by Vivendi Universal, which had acquired the property in 2002 after its merger with Seagram.[1] The university spent $1.5 million renovating the site in order to house its Development and Alumni Relations department, which moved there in 2004.
Previous Martlet Houses[edit]
Prior to 2004, the Martlet House designation had been applied to two properties in succession: one on University Street, followed by a move in 1971 to a stone mansion at 3605 De la Montagne Street that was designed by architect Robert Findlay.[2] The house was built in 1925 for Alice Graham Hallward,[3] the wife of Bernard Marsham Hallward and the only child of Canadian newspaper magnate Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Seagram Building reborn as Martlet House". McGill University. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
- ^ "Martlet House (formerly Hallward House)". Virtual McGill. Retrieved February 7, 2009.
- ^ "Maison Alice Graham - Mille carré doré". Journal de voyage (in French). Retrieved December 28, 2018.
- ^ "Atholstan, Baron (UK, 1917-1938)". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
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External links[edit]
Media related to Seagram House, Montreal at Wikimedia Commons- McGill – University Advancement
