David Thomson House -- McGill Archives

In 1935, the Gravel family commissioned J.J. Perrault to design a house for them on McTavish Street. It had a concrete frame and floors with a Montreal limestone exterior. The house has a cube structure with a simple, yet elegant facade. The interior is divided into many small rooms which are graced with carved details in wood, moulded plaster ceilings, and ornate fireplaces. This edifice was purchased by McGill in 1968 to serve as the Post-Graduate Students' Society. At this time the house was renamed the Thomson House after David L. Thomson, a dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and a founder of the Post-Graduate Students' Society which still occupies the house today.