Honourable Louis Joseph Forget, Chapel at Bois-de-la-Roche(1902)
290-292 Senneville Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue [Senneville], QC, Canada
Religious, Chapel; wood; wall bearing
14 Drawings: 4 ink on linen; 8 ink on paper; 2 pencil on paper

Client: Louis Joseph Forget
Architect: E. & W.S. Maxwell

Description: After Senator L.J. Forget (1835-1911; named to the Senate in 1896) had his Senneville estate house Bois-de-la-Roche (230) rebuilt after plans by Maxwell and Shattuck, he immediately commissioned from the newly partnered E. & W.S. Maxwell a detached chapel to be located slightly off the main driveway. A charming one-story, 43’ by 23’ Shingle style, shingle-roofed stone and wood edifice, it is animated by the gracious eyebrow curvatures of the roof, the spire and an irregular apse, in contrast with the robust and severe aspect of the main residence. The chapel underwent some renovation in the mid-1980s by then owner Louis Johnson but remains a good testimony of the client and architects’ original intentions. It is to be compared with another private chapel designed for the J.T. Davis family (368) in Montreal. See: Gagnon-Pratte, France. Country Houses for Montrealers 1892-1924: The Architecture of E. and W.S. Maxwell. Montreal: Meridian Press, 1987, p. 42, 70-81. Pinard, Guy. "La résidence d’été Louis-Joseph Forget." In Montréal, son histoire, son architecture. Tome 3. Montreal: La Presse, 1989, p. 306-315.

Holdings: Chapel; wood; wall bearing
14 Drawings: 4 ink on linen; 8 ink on paper; 2 pencil on paper
2 Sketch drawings: apse, door
7 Working drawings: floor plans, elevations, sections
5 Detail drawings: chapel screens, altar, furniture, fittings, brass fixture