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Royal Bank Tower - Montreal
The Royal Bank Tower, located at 360 Saint-Jacques Street in Montreal, Quebec, is a 22-storey, 121-meter (397-foot) skyscraper in the neoclassical style. Designed by the architectural firm York and Sawyer with the bank's chief architect Sumner Godfrey Davenport of Montreal, it was completed in 1928. At the time, it was the tallest building in both the British Empire and Canada, as well as the first structure in Montreal to surpass the height of the Notre-Dame Basilica, built nearly a century earlier.
The Royal Bank of Canada initially established its head office in Halifax at Hollis and George Streets in 1879. In 1907, the bank relocated its headquarters to Montreal. By 1926, with its original Montreal building proving too small, the bank's directors commissioned York and Sawyer to design a prestigious new building nearby. To make room for the new tower, the bank acquired and cleared properties between Saint-Jacques, Saint-Pierre, Notre-Dame, and Dollard Streets, including the former Mechanics' Institute and the ten-storey Bank of Ottawa building.
Although the Royal Bank moved its head office to Place Ville-Marie in 1962, it maintained a branch in the historic main hall of the Saint-Jacques building in Old Montreal until relocating to the nearby Tour de la Bourse in July 2012.
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