Print, Photographic
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| Object Name: | Print, Photographic |
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| Category: | Graphic Documents |
| Material: | paper ink |
| Accession Number: | CMP 01-25 |
| Other Geographical Data: | [46.016349804302,-61.530743793267] |
| Earliest Production Date: | 1910-01-01 |
| Latest Production Date: | 1942-12-31 |
| Description: | Pictured is a side and font view of the Royal Bank building that was located at the Corner in Port Hood. The building is squared shaped. It is three stories. A small balcony is visible on the side. There are steps leading up to the front. What appears to be a Union Jack is on the flag pole. Angus MacDonnells store is visible to the left of the bank. A small building is just visible behind the bank. |
| Narrative: | According to Architects of Nova Scotia: A Biographical Dictionary, 1605-1950 by Maud Rosinski, the Port Hood Bank of Montreal was designed by Andrew Randall Cobb (1876-1943) and Sydney Perry Dumaresq (1875 1943) in 1910. Architects of Nova Scotia states that: Andrew Randall Cobb was born in Brooklyn, New York, but completed a third year in Arts at Acadia and went on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to earn a Master of Science degree in architecture in 1904. He then spent three years in Cleveland, Ohio, working in several architectural offices. In 1907 he sailed for Antwerp and visited Belgium on his way to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux Arts. He finished among the sixty successful candidates out of several hundred. His vacations were spent making studies of architectural monuments in Italy, especially in Rome, in the French châteaux towns, and in England, which he toured by bicycle. The same book describes Sydney Perry Dumaresq as: Son of renowned Architect James Charles Dumaresq , Sydney Perry graduated from Acadia College in 1898 and immediately joined his fathers practice in Halifax for further professional training. In 1900, Sydney Perry was admitted into J.C. Dumaresq & Son. Together Andrew Randall Cobb and Sydney Perry Dumaresq designed not only the Bank of Montreal building in Port Hood but also the Dingle Tower in Halifax, buildings at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB and the First Presbyterian Church in New Glasgow. Cobb and Dumaresq also designed numerous buildings individually. SP Dumaresq Architect Limited continues in business today. The firm has designed over 100 buildings in Halifax over the past 145 years. The Bank of Montreal became a Royal Bank on December 26, 1934 and officially opened on January 2, 1935. The building served as both the Bank and the Managers place of residence. The building was destroyed by the Fire of 1942. After the fire the bank moved to rented space in the Court House. The branch manager collected cash and documents from the vault each morning and returned them each night. It took a couple of years for a new bank to be constructed. The second Royal Bank building was erected on the same site around the original vault. The caption is incorrect the fire was July 2, 1942. |
| Length: | 5.5 cm |
| Width: | 7.7 cm |
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| Institution City: | Chestico |
| Institution Province: | Nova Scotia |