Brick duplexes and triplexes with curling exterior staircases, and the Avenue Laval block where Wait Until Dark opened facing Saint-Louis Square.
What Le Plateau-Mont-Royal looks like
Brick duplexes and triplexes line a dense grid of streets off and Rue Saint-Denis, most two to three storeys with narrow footprints set close together. A curling metal staircase runs up the front of nearly every building to a second floor door, used in place of a shared lobby. Small front gardens sit behind iron fences, and rear laneways run behind the blocks.
and Rue Drolet carry the same brick duplexes a few blocks north, staircases zigzagging up to shared landings and small balconies at the top. runs east to west through the same grid, storefronts at some corners and duplex entrances at others.
Red brick is the common facade, and on the 1920s blocks it comes trimmed in cast stone around the doors and windows. Cornices and window heads repeat down a row the same way from one building to the next.
is ringed by Victorian row houses, its paths lined with benches and mature trees. runs along the square's west side, past the same brick facades and iron staircases found through the rest of the borough.
The area's main storefronts sit along Boulevard Saint-Laurent, painted signs above shopfronts under the apartments upstairs. The , a converted red brick duplex at the corner of Clark and Bagg, dates to 1899.
Shot in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
Wait Until Dark shot its opening scene on Avenue Laval, along the west side of Saint-Louis Square. The address is 3614 Avenue Laval, facing the square's row houses across the street.
Wait Until Dark, 1967
3614 Avenue Laval
The camera picks up the block as it runs along the square, brick and stone facades on both sides of the street. Saint-Louis Square appears in the same shot, its paths and trees just across the road. Street View
Cabbagetown's red brick rowhouses share the same two to three storey scale as the Plateau's own duplexes, built across a similar span of decades with repeating bay windows and cornice lines. Cabbagetown's staircases climb inside the building rather than up the facade, so a wide shot that includes Montreal's iron staircases gives the location away instantly. Try searching brick rowhouses now.
Over-the-Rhine's Italianate brick buildings carry the same two to three storey scale, with wrought iron balconies and stair rails that read close to Montreal's own ironwork. The cornice brackets and window hoods in Cincinnati are more ornate than the Plateau's plainer stone trim, so a wide establishing shot needs dressing to match, though street level coverage holds up. Try searching Italianate brick buildings now.
Federal Hill's brick rowhouses share the same two to three storey block rhythm and repeated cornice lines as the Plateau's own duplexes, most built in a similar period. Any shot showing the building entry needs different dressing, since Baltimore's marble front steps replace Montreal's iron staircases entirely; wider coverage of the brick and roofline holds up without changes. Try searching brick rowhouses block now.
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