City Hall of Quebec City

This guide to Quebec City's City Hall follows a design competition gone wrong: six architects entered in eighteen ninety, the jury's pick was thrown out as a fix, and a second attempt to stitch all six rejected plans into one building satisfied nobody either. You'll hear how a new mayor handed the empty site to an unknown thirty-six-year-old, Georges-Emile Tanguay, in eighteen ninety-four. Look for the salvaged stones from the old Jesuit college folded into the base of the building in front of you.