The Laurentian Hotel was a 1000-room hotel on Dorchester Street, now René Lévesque Boulevard

René Lévesque Boulevard

René Lévesque Boulevard is one of the main streets in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.It is a main east-west thoroughfare passing through the downtown core in the borough of Ville-Marie. The street begins on the west at Atwater Avenue and continues until it merges with Notre Dame Street East just east...

, in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

. The hotel was built in 1948 and demolished in 1978. The building was designed by Charles Davis Goodman, who was the architect of a number of prominent Streamline Moderne

Streamline Moderne

Streamline Moderne, sometimes referred to by either name alone or as Art Moderne, was a late type of the Art Deco design style which emerged during the 1930s...

 structures in the city, including the Jewish General Hospital and Bens De Luxe Delicatessen & Restaurant.

At the time, it was the largest hotel ever demolished in Canada.