Golden Square Mile
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The Golden Square Mile, also known as the Square Mile, is the nostalgic name given to an urban neighbourhood developed principally between 1850 and 1930 at the foot of Mount Royal, in the west-central
Ravenscrag, built for Sir Hugh Allan in 1863
Herbert Molson House, designed by architect Robert Findlay in 1912
Surrender of Montreal to the British, 1760
The Montreal townhouse of David Ross on the Champ de Mars, circa 1812
Ravenscrag, Montreal
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Ravenscrag is a historic mansion located in the Golden Square Mile in Montreal, Canada.
Golden Square Mile
…whose name I forget but who has collected here everything which is rich and rare, in shrub or flower. Completed in 1863, Sir Hugh Allan's new house, Ravenscrag, was to be the jewel of the Square Mile, as he intended. He purchased fourteen acres from the decaying McTavish estate and built a sumptuous home of…
McTavish House (circa 1850)
Terrace Bank (1861), John Redpath residence
Braehead (1861), Orrin Squire Wood's residence