library:
the
early montreal tradition
| Libraries were
conceived as monumental structures. This
is no feigning of the proud and the robust; these public buildings do overwhelm
with the impressive shadows they cast. The Beaux-Arts style is used by Eugène Payette to introduce
a French influence, “elegant and refined, as if in Paris”, to the Bibliothèque
Nationale (formerly Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice). In 1914, two years later, Payette asserts a roman dominance
with the ten commanding Corinthian columns of the Bibliothèque Municipale de
Montréal. Finally, Robert Findlay
used a Richardsonian expression for the Westmount Library of 1898.
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