The Emporium Limited Store()
Sainte-Catherine Street [West], Montreal, QC, Canada
Commercial, Department Store; Apartments [Scheme 1: 11 floors; scheme 2: 8 floors]; stone; concrete frame

Client: Emporium Limited
Architect: E. & W.S. Maxwell

Description: The Emporium Limited Store was a proposal for a tall store and apartment building on Sainte-Catherine Street (side street not mentioned). Scheme 1 called for ten floors with a narrow main façade, two bays wide by four bays deep. There would have been four retail floors and six residential floors above, four dwellings to a floor, 24 in total. A restaurant would have been situated on the roof above the tenth floor. The glazing varied according to height. The ground and first floors had full width windows; the second and third floors had Chicago windows (a large pane in centre with small sash windows on either side); and the upper floors had normal windows in groups of two or three. Scheme 2 had a much larger footprint at five bays on each street, wide display windows on the ground and first floor and the rest with double sash windows. The floor plans were incomplete for scheme 2. It is not known whether the upper floors were retail or apartments. Again, the emphasis was on verticality and crisp lines in elevation and ornamentation.

Holdings: Department store (10 floors); stone; concrete frame
7 Drawings: 7 blueprints
7 Development drawings: floor plans, roof plan, elevations