Brick triplexes carry exterior metal staircases above ground floor shops on Notre-Dame Street West.
What Saint-Henri looks like
Saint-Henri's residential streets carry three storey brick triplexes and duplexes. Red brick covers some blocks and brown covers others, with cast stone trim on the 1920s examples. Several buildings carry exterior metal staircases climbing to the upper flats, with painted iron railings along each landing.
and carry the ground floor shops, three storey brick fronts with painted or hand lettered signs over the doors. Marché La Pantry occupies a corner storefront in white cladding beneath red brick upper storeys, and sits a few blocks east under its own sign. Some storefronts along Notre-Dame stand boarded over, a young tree growing at the curb in front of one of them.
The metro station opens onto a paved plaza with a bus stop and industrial brick buildings behind it. A few streets south, meets Rue Saint-Ferdinand at a wide intersection where a corner house has been demolished, leaving the lot fenced and empty.
On , a different row of flats shows grey stone and brick fronts with dormer windows in the roofline. Wooden and metal balconies reach the upper floors, with a short flight of entry steps up from the sidewalk. The Lachine Canal runs along the neighbourhood's southern edge.
Shot in Saint-Henri
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan used Bar de Courcelle at 4685 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest as a Washington DC bar in the first season of the Amazon Prime Video series. The Prime Video series 56 Days shot at Greenspot, the diner at 3041 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest that has kept its 1947 decor since moving across the street in 1989.
56 Days
Played a diner
Lee and Karl are shown dining at Greenspot in the fourth episode of the Prime Video series. The diner's booths and counter sit behind its street level storefront on Notre-Dame Street West.
What Saint-Henri can double for
3e Avenue in Quebec City, Quebec
Limoilou's residential streets carry the same Quebec triplex form as Saint-Henri, with exterior metal staircases climbing to the upper flats and narrow lots set close together. The building type and the staircases themselves are close to identical, since both neighbourhoods were built under the same provincial housing pattern. Quebec City's streets run wider in places and some facades use grey stucco rather than brick, so a tight shot on the staircases and brick keeps the match solid. Try searching exterior metal staircases now.
Bowdoin Street in Boston, Massachusetts
Dorchester's triple decker streets share Saint-Henri's three storey scale and brick to sidewalk frontage, and several blocks carry their own exterior back stairs and iron railings. The massing and street width read close enough for a wide shot without much added dressing. Boston's triple deckers are more often wood clad with front porches than Saint-Henri's brick facades, so a close shot on the building material gives the difference away. Try searching exterior back stairs now.
18th Street in Chicago, Illinois
Pilsen's brick two and three storey buildings sit right at the sidewalk with ground floor shops much like Notre-Dame Street West, and both corridors carry a mix of grocery signage and older painted lettering. Saint-Henri's exterior metal staircases are the giveaway difference, so a shot framed on the storefronts rather than the housing behind them holds the match. Keep the frame on the ground floor shopfronts and avoid tilting up to the residential floors above, where Saint-Henri's exterior staircases would give a Chicago street away. Try searching ground floor shopfronts now.
