Château Ramezay, National historic site and museum in Old Montreal, Canada.
Château Ramezay is a rough grey stone building with a steeply pitched grey roof on Notre-Dame Street in Old Montreal, opposite Montreal City Hall. Its facade has a row of tall, white-framed, multi-paned windows, three small stone dormers on the left roof slope, and a red double door with open red shutters in a projecting entranceway. A paved driveway curves in front, with flowering shrubs along the wall.
The building was constructed in 1705 for Montreal governor Claude de Ramezay and later served as headquarters for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. This phase shaped the relationship between Canada and the emerging American nation.
The mansion is named after its original owner and shows through its rooms how Montreal's wealthy society lived and worked across different periods. The exhibitions document how this place shaped the city's story and its people's lives over centuries.
The museum faces Montreal City Hall on Notre-Dame Street in Old Montreal. Guided tours of the permanent exhibitions run on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and last about an hour, in French and English only; group tours can be booked. The Governor's Garden behind the building recreates an 18th-century French formal garden.
Benjamin Franklin spent a night here in 1776 while seeking support for the American Revolution. His visit linked the two nations in a historical moment that remains present in the museum's rooms today.
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