New York Life Insurance Building (Montreal)

New York Life Insurance Building
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General information
TypeOffice building
Architectural styleRichardsonian Romanesque
Location511 Place D'Armes
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Completed1887
Technical details
Floor count9
Design and construction
Architect(s)Babb, Cook and Willard, New York (and Peter Lyall)
511 Place d'Armes

Montreal's New York Life Insurance Building (also known as the Quebec Bank Building) is an office building at Place d'Armes in what is now known as Old Montreal, erected in 1887–1889. At the time of its completion, it was the tallest commercial building in Montreal with the first eight floors were designed for retail office space, that quickly filled with the city's best lawyers and financiers. When the clock tower was completed, the owner filled the ninth and tenth floors with the largest legal library in the entire country as a gift to tenants. The building is next to another historic office tower, Aldred Building.