Royal Bank Tower (Montreal)
The bank's first official head office was at Hollis and George in Halifax in 1879. In 1907 the Royal Bank of Canada moved its head office from Halifax to Montreal. As its original building on Saint-Jacques Street turned out to be too small, in 1926 the board of directors of the biggest bank in Canada hired New York architects York and Sawyer to build a prestigious new building a short distance westward. Between 1920 and 1926 the bank had bought up all the property between Saint-Jacques, Saint-Pierre, Notre-Dame and Dollard Streets to demolish all the buildings there including the old Mechanics' Institute and the ten-storey Bank of Ottawa building in order to make space for the new 22-storey building.
In 1962, the Royal Bank moved its main office to another famous Montreal building, Place Ville-Marie, however kept a branch in the impressive main hall of the old building, situated in Old Montreal. That branch relocated to the nearby Tour de la Bourse in July 2012.
See also
- Bank of Montreal Head Office, Montreal
- Molson Bank Building, Montreal
- Tour CIBC
- Old Canadian Bank of Commerce Building, Montreal
- Royal Bank Plaza - RBC corporate offices in Toronto
References
- ^ "Emporis building ID 112409". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016.
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- ^ Royal Bank Tower at Structurae
- ^ "Davenport, Sumner Godfrey | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada".
- ^ "Tour de la Banque Royale, Montréal | 112409". Emporis. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
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