The Montreal Star Building is a former office complex, now hotel, 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...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

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. The complex, which is located in Old Montreal

Old Montreal

Old Montreal is the oldest area in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, dating back to New France. Located in the borough of Ville-Marie, the area is bordered on the west by McGill St., on the north by Ruelle des Fortifications, on the east by Berri St. and on the south by the Saint Lawrence River...

 is composed of three different attached buildings belonging to the Montreal Star

Montreal Star

The Montreal Star was an English-language Canadian newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It folded in 1979 following an eight-month pressmen's strike....

newspaper.

The complex was home to the Montreal Star and several of its sister publications until it ceased publication in 1979. From 1980 to 2003, the Montreal Gazette

The Gazette (Montreal)

The Gazette, often called the Montreal Gazette to avoid ambiguity, is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with three other daily English newspapers all having shut down at different times during the second half of the 20th century.-History:In 1778,...

owned the building. The complex was renovated in 2008-2009 and is now part of the Westin Montreal hotel.

Montreal Star I

The address of the original building is 241-245 Saint Jacques Street

Saint Jacques Street

Saint Jacques Street is a major street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.The street has had two official names: St. James Street in English after St. James's, London; and its current appellation, rue Saint-Jacques, in French. Both names are sometimes used in English, though Saint-Jacques is the most...

. The original Montreal Star building was designed by Montreal architect Alexander Francis Dunlop

Alexander Francis Dunlop

Alexander Francis Dunlop, was a Canadian architect from Montreal, Quebec.-Biography:Alexander Francis Dunlop worked as an apprentice to Montreal architects George Browne and John James Browne. From 1871 to 1874 he lived and worked in Detroit, Michigan. He opened his own architectural firm in...

, with work starting in 1899 and completing in 1900. It is 5 stories tall.

Montreal Star II

The address of the second building is 231-235 Saint Jacques Street. The second building was designed by Montreal architecture firm Ross and Macdonald

Ross and Macdonald

Ross and Macdonald was one of Canada's most notable architecture firms in the early 20th century. Based in Montreal, Quebec, the firm originally operated as a partnership between George Allen Ross and David MacFarlane from 1907 to 1912. MacFarlane retired in 1913, and Robert Henry Macdonald...

. The building has 13 floors and is built with limestone

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....

 from Indiana

Indiana

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 and grey granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

around the doors.

The two basement levels and the foundations of the building were constructed in 1927 or 1928. Work on the above-ground floors began in 1929 and was completed in April 1930.