Typology: hotel
Architect: B. Price
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"Château Frontenac", a landmark hotel in the Old Upper Town in #QuebecCity, opened in 1893 as one of Canada's pioneering grand railway hotels, built by the Canadian Pacific Railway. Designed by New York architect Bruce Price, its dramatic architecture draws heavily from medieval French Loire Valley châteaux, featuring steep pitched roofs, ornate gables and dormers, massive circular and polygonal towers, turrets, tall chimneys, and an asymmetrical, fortress-like profile with rich polychromatic surfaces and strong gothic influences. Perched on a promontory overlooking the Saint Lawrence River, it replaced the 1780s Château Haldimand.
