Nun's Island Residential Towers and Esso Service Station
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
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Alternative Title
Ile des Soeurs Apartments and Gas Station
Date
1969Description
General view of the gas station; The name commemorates the nuns of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, which had acquired part of the island in 1706 and kept it for over two hundred years. The island was formerly a municipality, L'Île-Saint-Paul, founded in 1899; it merged with Verdun in 1956. The development of the island began in earnest in the late 1960s, and features four buildings attributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, three high rise apartments, the first of which was occupied in 1969, and an Esso filling station of the same vintage. Nuns Island is one of Montreal's wealthiest communities. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 1/28/2008)
Type of Work
apartment house; service stationSubject
architectural exteriors, business, commerce and trade, contemporary (1960 to present), Housing, Transportation, Modernist
Rights
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