Montreal City Hall

The five-story Montreal City Hall (French: Hôtel de Ville de Montréal, pronounced [otɛl də vil də mɔ̃ʁeal]) is the seat of local government in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

It was designed by architects Henri-Maurice Perrault and Alexander Cowper Hutchison, and built between 1872 and 1878 in the Second Empire style.

[1][2] It is located in Old Montreal, between Place Jacques-Cartier and the Champ de Mars, at 275 Notre-Dame Street East.

The original building was gutted by fire in March 1922, leaving only the outer wall and destroying many of the city's historic records.

In 1967 Charles de Gaulle, the president of France, gave his Vive le Québec libre speech from the building's balcony.

City Hall on the evening of March 3, 1922