Place
Old Saint-Sulpice Seminary
Vieux Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice, 116 R. Notre Dame O, Montréal, QC H2Y 1T2
Fortified-era stone seminary with a carved-stone facade and North America's oldest working public clock.
This guide to Old Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Montreal opens with Francois Dollier de Casson's plan for a facade grand enough for the court of Louis the Fourteenth, and the scaled-back reality he built instead by 1687. It follows the ornate clock installed on the facade in 1701, gilded by the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, and the 1840 push by the bishop to tear the seminary down for something modern. Listen for where the partial rebuild stopped before Montreal changed course.
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