Windsor Station stands as one of Montreal’s great architectural survivors. Completed in 1889 for the Canadian Pacific Railway and designed by New York architect Bruce Price in Romanesque Revival style, the limestone landmark once anchored the country’s most powerful rail company. Expansions by Edward and William Maxwell in the early 1900s added the tower that still defines the skyline west of downtown. Though trains stopped running here in 1996, the building’s vaulted concourse remains a gathering space—now home to offices, cafés, and frequent city conventions—linked underground to the Bell Centre and Lucien-L’Allier station. Named a National Historic Site in 1975 and later a provincial monument, Windsor Station marks the moment when Montreal imagined itself as the heart of a continental railway empire—and built accordingly.
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