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3,260 Square Feet · Ground Level
Each floor offers a sovereign presence — generous volumes, original stone millwork, and light of rare quality.
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Montréal's Golden Square Mile stood as the wealthiest square mile on the continent — home to the industrialists, financiers and merchant dynasties whose names still echo through Canadian history. It was here, in 1894, that a grand Second Empire residence was commissioned on Drummond Street, its carved grey limestone façade and distinctive corner turret rising above the treeline as an unmistakable statement of private ambition and cultivated taste.
The property passed through the hands of several of Montréal's most distinguished families, most notably the Molsons, who retained ownership until the estate of Stephen Molson sold the property in 1937. Under their stewardship, the residence embodied the Golden Square Mile at its height: four floors of reception rooms, private salons and chambered suites, connected by a sweeping mahogany staircase dressed in Persian runner, its walls hung with original floral wallpaper and its ceilings adorned with carved plaster cornicing of exceptional refinement.
The decades that followed were less kind to the neighbourhood. By the 1970s, many Golden Square Mile mansions were lost quietly to demolition, dereliction, or fire. While 2070 Drummond remarkably survived with its architectural soul and structural interior entirely intact, it awaited a steward to return it to its former glory.
It was rescued by a singular vision. A Montréal fashion designer, drawn to the building's impeccable bones and its irreplaceable position in the city's architectural memory, acquired the property and undertook one of the most ambitious private restoration programmes the neighbourhood had seen. Working with meticulous attention to period detail, the designer restored the preserved interiors — reconditioning the carved millwork, protecting the stained glass panels, and reviving the mahogany balustrades and Persian runners that had defined the house at its height.
What the restoration added was as remarkable as what it preserved. A private interior courtyard was constructed from whole cloth — a classical stone pavilion housing a working fountain, enclosed by French glass doors and Roméo & Juliette balconies opening from every floor, creating an interior garden virtually unknown in Montréal's commercial building stock. The entire property was simultaneously upgraded with full modern infrastructure: new electrical, plumbing, HVAC, sprinkler systems, and a private elevator — a high-performance asset operating within a preserved heritage envelope.
The result is without parallel in the city. A property that carries over 130 years of history in its stone, the vision of a designer's eye in every proportion, and the performance of a contemporary building in every system. It has never been publicly marketed. It is offered now, quietly, to those who understand what it represents.
"A building of uncommon gravity — its stone façade announces permanence in a city that rarely pauses to consider it."— Architectural character, Maison D'Alcy
"Originally conceived during Montreal's golden age of commerce in 1894, Maison D'Alcy stands today as a rare surviving expression of permanence, craftsmanship, and architectural dignity."
Private occupancy opportunities suited to family offices, private wealth management, architecture ateliers, legal chambers, galleries, haute couture houses, and executive headquarters.
2070 Drummond occupies one of Montreal's most storied blocks — within steps of the Ritz-Carlton, Mount Stephen Hotel, Holt Renfrew, and McGill University. The neighbourhood's concentration of institutional prestige is unmatched in Canada.
