Brick triplex rows with exterior staircases surround a cluster of Beaux-Arts civic buildings, with the leaning Montreal Tower on the skyline.
What Hochelaga-Maisonneuve looks like
is the commercial spine, three story red and brown brick buildings with cornices over ground floor storefronts and apartments stacked above. Side streets run off it in a straight grid, quiet residential blocks that meet the wider industrial-era avenues at right angles.
Most of those side streets are lined with brick triplexes, two and three storeys, some with a shop or a second unit built into the ground floor. Exterior staircases climb the front of nearly every building to the upper flats, some straight runs and some tight spirals, under a cornice that repeats down the block. Behind the rows, service lanes cut through the middle of each block, wide enough for a car and lined with garages and fences.
At Ontario Street and William-David Street, the 1912 Beaux-Arts stone hall of the stands beside the market building that replaced it in 1995. A few blocks north on Avenue Morgan stands , the former Maisonneuve public bath. It is built in the same limestone, with carved stone decoration around its entrance.
, a Beaux-Arts mansion near Pie-IX Boulevard, sits at the edge of the district close to Sherbrooke Street. Above the rooftops to the north, the concrete tower over the leans at a steep angle, visible from many of the streets below it.
Shot in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
The Radio-Canada series 30 Vies used a community centre on Ontario Street as its fictional Vieux-Havre school, filming there at least 650 times between 2011 and 2017. The police series 19-2 filmed many of its own patrol scenes along Ontario Street East.
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Ontario Street East
The police series 19-2 filmed many of its patrol scenes along Ontario Street East. This block, lined with three storey brick storefronts near Davidson Street, is typical of the stretch the show used. Street View
Dorchester's triple decker houses share a similar scale and street grid, three flats stacked behind a shared brick or wood frame front. Bay windows and porches read close to the triplexes off Ontario Street. Dorchester's stairs run up the inside rather than climbing the facade, so hold wide shots on the exterior staircases to keep the match. Try searching triple decker houses now.
Pullman's brick rowhouses and its own market hall sit at a similar scale to the triplexes and civic buildings around Ontario Street. Both combine plain worker housing with a small cluster of grander public buildings within a few blocks. Pullman's rowhouses share brick party walls rather than climbing exterior staircases, so a wide shot needs the stairs and balconies here to hold the difference. Try searching brick worker rowhouses now.
Silo City in Buffalo, New York
The concrete grain elevators along the Buffalo River match the scale and material of the silo standing over the old port lands here. Both are tall, windowless concrete towers rather than finished architecture. Buffalo's silos cluster in a denser row, so a single tower needs a tight frame to avoid showing how isolated this one stands. Try searching concrete grain elevators now.
