Hugh Allan Poe's House Descriptive Essay

At the foot of the mountain, it is now identified as 1025 Pins Avenue West, more precisely in Ville-Marie municipality. The formal street name was McTavish street. The entrance of the building on the south side allows us to have a view of Peel’s street which on each side is garnished by several buildings of McGill campus. More so, the Pins Avenue West is shaped like a necklace which embellishes in its own way the foot of the Mont Royal.
In 1861, Sir Hugh Allan commanded to Victor Roy & John Hopkins to build a house in the image of his wealth and power. Having the reputation to be quite elaborate, Italianate inspired houses were “proved more successful than the Gothic revival style because it was easier to build and maintain”. The 34 rooms of the mansion all had different design and aspect. From a mix of French, Italian and Victorian style, Ravenscrag was worthy of its name inspired by a Scotland Castle.
As previously said, the Hugh Allan’s House went from private to public in the 1940s. In 1893 Montague “inherited his father’s mantle as lord of Ravenscrag” and continued to live in the mansion with his family. He was the second generation of the Allan to possess the Ravenscrag Mansion. In his late years of life (1940), he and his wife donated the mansion to the Royal

It was silent and had an enclosed smell. I manage to find my way to the security passing through restrained hallways. I was disappointed to find that no one was there either but as I was about to leave the security I saw an employee and asked him where I could find some information about the building architecture and history. He was kind enough to show me the administrative agent’s office whose name is Rachel Abugov. She told me first hand that they were not a lot she could do because it was an institute and patients privacy could not be invaded. Therefore, I don’t have a lot of information regarding the inside of the Allan Memorial