Fonderie Darling
Former ironworks turned contemporary art centre, its landmark spiral chimney still crowning the old casting hall.
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This guide to Fonderie Darling in Montreal follows a nineteenth-century ironworks whose spiral chimney fed furnaces running day and night, casting pumps, elevators, tramway parts and wartime armaments for nearly a century. It traces the plant from its eight-hundred-worker peak through its 1991 closure and the decade-long effort by a Quebec arts group to save the empty halls. Listen for how the old casting hall's brick and steel still shape the room around you.
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