Seville Theatre
1255 Rue Sainte Catherine Ouest,
Montreal,
QC
H3G 1P3
1255 Rue Sainte Catherine Ouest,
Montreal,
QC
H3G 1P3
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The Seville is in demolition as of today. (Oct 5, 2010).
The website spacingmontreal.ca has an article about the
demolition. A browse under the “category” may reveal
more about other cinemas and theatres.
Spacing Montreal’s site is: http://spacingmontreal.ca/
There are other Spacing links for Toronto, Ottawa and
Halifax.
From the blog: “The demolition of the former site of the Seville theatre began officially on Tuesday, June 8, 2010. A press conference was held in downtown Montreal, on the site of the future housing project, at the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Chomedey Sts. Mayor Gérald Tremblay, the president of Claridge and Jacques Vincent, co-president of Prével, have each expressed their pride in seeing this project of 450 new condos becoming reality. The ground floor will be occupied exclusively by businesses giving onto Sainte-Catherine St. Here is a preliminary rendering of Le Seville.”
The developer “Prevel” has put up some old pictures of the Seville Theatre during her glory years on their blog. A condo unit is about to replace the wreck of Seville, and judging by the lineup around their newly constructed offices, units are selling like hotcakes—> http://condosleseville.blogspot.com/
They’ve begun tearing down the deserted block, where Seville’s ruins stand. Her days are numbered. My guess is that within 1-2 weeks time, we’ll be changing her status to “demolished”.
What’s especially tragic about the loss of Seville is that when she closed as a moviehouse, she could’ve been preserved in a similar manner to that of Toronto’s Runnymede Theatre.
They retained Runnymede’s character by incorporating it into her new incarnation as a Chapters bookstore. If you don’t know what I mean, go here—>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cinemarie/3337078982/
I really wish they’d do this to old theatres more often, instead of gutting. Poor Seville.
The Seville is still wearing it’s braces in this photo.
Here is a January 17, 2008 blog that discusses renovation:
http://tinyurl.com/3aaxkx
This theatre was an atmospheric.
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Wasn’t this a repertory cinema for a time in the early 1980s? Here is a photo I took around 1989.
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Hi
I see the architect name for this theater: M Cajetan Dufort
I see this information on this website:theater:http://services.ville.montreal.qc.ca/rat/acc_ratf.asp
(archive C.U.M)