Montreal City Hall, Montreal, Canada

Visit duration: 30 min Editorial visit time estimate

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

About Montreal City Hall

Montreal City Hall (Hôtel de Ville de Montréal) is the five-storey seat of the city's local government, at 275 Notre-Dame Street East in Old Montreal, between Place Jacques-Cartier and the Champ de Mars. Designed by Henri-Maurice Perrault and Alexander Cowper Hutchison, it was built between 1872 and 1878 in the Second Empire style. As one of the best examples of that style in Canada and the first city hall in the country built solely for municipal administration, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1984.

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What's inside

A fire gutted the original building in March 1922, leaving only the outer walls and destroying many of the city's historic records. Architect Louis Parant rebuilt it as an entirely new building with a self-supporting steel structure inside the shell, modelled on the city hall of Tours in France and topped with a Beaux-Arts copper roof; it reopened on 15 February 1926. In 1967 the French president Charles de Gaulle gave his 'Vive le Québec libre' speech from its balcony. The ground-floor lobby has a small exhibition space.

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Common questions

Which metro station is closest to Montreal City Hall?

Champ-de-Mars, on the Orange Line.

Where it is

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Within 4 min on foot

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