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Edwardian Montreal : The Art Association Building on Phillips Square
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Edwardian Montreal : The Art Association Building on Phillips Square
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The author remarks that a visit to an exhibition at the Art Association of Montreal Gallery on Phillips Square at St. Catherine Street, officially opened on May 26, 1879, was one of the chief delights of refined Montrealers during the Edwardian period (1901-1910). The property on which the building stood was donated by Benaiah Gibb (1798-1877), a prominent nineteenth-century city merchant and one of the founders in 1860 of the Art Association of Montreal. However, by 1910, the Phillips Square building was deemed too restrictive, despite an enlargement in 1893, and the Art Association sought a property for a new gallery. A property was purchased on Sherbrooke Street and a new building, designed by Montreal architects Edward Maxwell (1867-1923) and William Sutherland Maxwell (1874-1952), opened on December 9. 1912, as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The old Art Association of Montreal Gallery building on Phillips Square was demolished in the late 1940s.
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Connections: Journal of The Quebec Family History Society
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Vol. 42
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no. 2
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February 2020
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11-13
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en
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Wilkins, Robert N. “Edwardian Montreal : The Art Association Building on Phillips Square.” Connections: Journal of The Quebec Family History Society, February 2020.
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