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Tour de la Banque Royale 
Alternative names Royal Bank Tower General information Type Commercial offices Location 360 Saint-Jacques Street
Montréal, QuebecCoordinates 45°30′07″N 73°33′34″W / 45.5019°N 73.5594°WCoordinates: 45°30′07″N 73°33′34″W / 45.5019°N 73.5594°W Construction started 1927 Completed 1928 Height Roof 121 m (397 ft) Technical details Floor count 22 Floor area 344,400 sq ft (32,000 m2) Elevator count 8 Design and construction Architect York, Sawyer and Davenport References [1][2][3] Tour de la Banque Royale (Royal Bank Tower) is a skyscraper at 360 Saint-Jacques Street in Montréal, Quebec. The 22-storey 121 m (397 ft) neo-classical tower was designed by the firm of York and Sawyer, and was the tallest building in the British Empire, and the first building in city taller than Montréal's Notre-Dame Basilica when completed in 1926.
In 1907 the Royal Bank of Canada moved its head office from Halifax to Montreal. As the building in Saint-Jacob Street turned out to be too small, in 1926 the board of directors of the biggest bank in Canada hired New York architects York and Sawyer to build a prestigious new building on Saint-Jacques Street. Between 1920 and 1926 the bank had bought up all the property between Saint-Jacques, Saint-Pierre, Notre-Dame and Dollard Streets to demolish all the buildings there including the old Mechanics' Institute and the ten-storey Bank of Ottawa building in order to make space for the new 22-storey building.
In 1962, the Royal Bank moved its main office to another famous Montreal building, Place Ville-Marie. The Royal Bank still keeps a branch in the impressive main hall of the old building, situated in Old Montreal. That branch is scheduled to relocate to the nearby Tour de la Bourse in 2012[1].
Saint-Jacques street with the Royal Bank building (the tallest), 1935See also
- Bank of Montreal Head Office, Montreal
- Molson Bank Building, Montreal
- Tour CIBC
- Old Canadian Bank of Commerce Building, Montreal
- Royal Bank Plaza - RBC corporate offices in Toronto
References
- ^ Tour de la Banque Royale at Emporis
- ^ Tour de la Banque Royale at SkyscraperPage
- ^ Tour de la Banque Royale at Structurae
External links
Timeline of the tallest buildings in Canada - Toronto Board of Trade Building (1892)
- Beard Building (30 m) (1894)
- Temple Building (40 m) (1896)
- Trader's Bank Building (60 m) (1906)
- Dominion Building (53 m) (1910)
- Sun Tower (82 m) (1912)
- Canadian Pacific Building (c.85 m) (1913)
- Royal Bank Building (90 m) (1915)
- Tour de la Banque Royale (119 m) (1928)
- Fairmont Royal York (124 m) (1929)
- Commerce Court North (145 m) (1931)
- Tour CIBC (187 m) (1962)
- Place Ville-Marie (188 m) (1962)
- Tour de la Bourse (190 m) (1964)
- Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower (223 m) (1967)
- Commerce Court West (239 m) (1972)
- First Canadian Place (298 m) (1975)
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Categories:- Skyscrapers in Montreal
- Royal Bank of Canada
- Landmarks in Montreal
- 1928 architecture
- Skyscrapers between 100 and 149 meters
- Old Montreal
- Historic bank buildings in Canada
- Neoclassical architecture in Canada
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