Here in Ottawa, this week is Architecture Week, with a festival of talks, tours and films (even a pub crawl) organized by the Ottawa Regional Society of Architects – all oriented to the celebration and study of the discipline of design. In the spirit of this festival, and having introduced components of Vanier’s built heritage last week, we’re shining some light on a number of buildings that once existed, or designs that were once proposed, along Vanier’s Montreal Road corridor.
To begin, we point to the clean lines of the 1950 addition of the Eastview Hotel – a prominent landmark at the corner of Montreal and Cody for 30 years. The hotel stood opposite the St. Margaret’s Anglican Church until a fire destroyed both the 30-room addition and the original structure, dating from 1900 (ALSO: Unlikely Neighbours). Today, the site is occupied by a City of Ottawa ambulance depot.
Photo: Postcard by Folkard, Montreal (1950s)
