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 Emperor Wang
    
Location: On an island, in a river
Fetish? What fetish?
 |  | Trackside Ruins
< on 3/11/2006 1:48 AM >
|  | | | I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on this place. It's a handsome little ruin across Rene-Levesque from the Grey Nunnery. Go past the bottom of Amesbury, down towards the CP train tracks, and you'll find it sitting right on top of the start of the escarpment.
I briefly checked out the top side tonight, and it doesn't look like much from above. Just some crumbling stone walls filled with dirt and snow. But from the train heading home it looked to be at least a two-storey structure at one time, with an intact ground floor. Goad's maps of the area indicate it's about 100 years old, but give no clue as to its identity.
It's in a dicey area to check out though. Right beside a cop shop and an active CP employee parking lot, nevermind the hundreds of condo dwellers living directly above it. Still, I'm intrigued by this little puppy.
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
Location: Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
| | Re: Trackside Ruins
<Reply # 1 on 3/11/2006 6:08 AM >
| | | | that area has an interesting underground, the building containing herzing and the cop shop were once a northern electric plant, the building on the corner a northern office. inside some interesting hints to the past, one the parking garage under the office building is now accessed from a new entrance facing the train tracks but originally was accessed from the area around the ramp. the washrooms in herzing show hints as to doors that made them accessable from the other ends instead, not an easy site to get in considering there is a police station and a royal bank call center in the building, the building also still has a visible northern telecom logo on the end
Montreal Expos 1969-2004 Forever Proud Lets Keep The Dream Alive |
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Emperor Wang
Location: On an island, in a river
Fetish? What fetish?
| | Re: Trackside Ruins
<Reply # 2 on 3/12/2006 12:40 AM >
| | | | Great info as always, nostra.
False alarm on the ruins unfortunately. It looks like the upper floor of the place collapsed before it was filled in. Unless you want to shovel your way in, interior access is just not an option.
I still have no clue what this building was, but the solid construction indicates it must've been fairly important at one time.
A few pics of the exterior...
And a detail from Goad's 1912 map of the area...
Interesting to see how the property lines are basically unchanged nearly a century later.
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
Location: Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
| | Re: Trackside Ruins
<Reply # 3 on 3/12/2006 7:07 AM >
| | | | the condo/nouvel hotel complex with the most recent building is fairly interesting as they are all connected in the parking level, until recently lot "1596" was a vacant lot, now with the condos they went down many floors for the parking garage, funny, no access to the garage on that property its accessed via the nouvel hotel on st matthieu. also the nouvel hotel sacrificed someof its basement for the entry to the parking lot of the new building.
Montreal Expos 1969-2004 Forever Proud Lets Keep The Dream Alive |
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
Location: Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
| | Re: Trackside Ruins
<Reply # 4 on 3/12/2006 7:08 PM >
| | | | probably a swanky house, remember this was once a NICE neighborhood, overdale right by there was once loaded with mansions
Montreal Expos 1969-2004 Forever Proud Lets Keep The Dream Alive |
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Emperor Wang
Location: On an island, in a river
Fetish? What fetish?
| | Re: Trackside Ruins
<Reply # 5 on 3/14/2006 5:16 AM >
| | | | What's up with the Overdale mansion anyway? Someone here must've made it inside at some time or another, no? Has the City been keeping that close tabs on the place since the squatting/demolition episode took place?
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
Location: Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
| | Re: Trackside Ruins
<Reply # 6 on 3/14/2006 6:44 AM >
| | | | sadly the rest of the houses are gone only the louis h house remains
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