1/25/11

Fire guts beautiful stone house - St-Henri

A fire gutted this beautiful house that was converted into a business in Saint-Henri, on rue Saint-Jacques and rue Lacasse. You can see how it looked like before the fire in the last photo taken from Google Maps.

I also included a small video clip of the destroyed stone building.






3 comments:

Amber said...

Hey,

Great blog! Someone mentioned the following on Facebook today:

"Medley/Old Munich building on St-Denis and Rene-Levesque when I noticed it had a demolition sign on it "

...thought you might be interested!

A

Vanishing Montreal said...

Thanks for the tip. I took some cool photos and will post them soon.

Louis-Charles said...

Oh no!

I used to live on Lacasse. That building was exceptionnal! This is sad.

One has to know it's been struck by a fire the same year the Saint-Elisabeth-du-Portugal church and appartments in front of the Home Depot burnt down. It's a big loss for the neighbourhood.

Saint-Henri is just too often struck by fires. Old buildings and lack of preventive restoration.