Édifice Gaston-Miron, Public building on Sherbrooke Street, Montreal, Canada.
Édifice Gaston-Miron is a three-story structure at 1210 Sherbrooke Street East featuring granite columns, a central atrium, and a grand marble entrance hall. Multiple rooms and exhibition spaces within serve public events and cultural activities throughout the year.
Built between 1914 and 1917, the structure served as Montreal's central library until 2005, when library operations relocated to the Grande Bibliothèque. The building then transitioned to house cultural and heritage organizations.
The building is named after Gaston Miron, the Quebec poet, in a 2009 renaming of the former central library. Since February 2009 it has housed the Conseil des arts de Montréal and the Conseil du patrimoine de Montréal, two bodies that occupy the former reading rooms facing La Fontaine Park.
The building sits near Sherbrooke metro station and is accessible by bus route 24. Visitor hours and access to exhibition spaces may vary depending on scheduled programs and events.
The building's name honours Gaston Miron, the Quebec poet and publisher to whom the former central library was dedicated in 2009, the same year the Conseil des arts de Montréal and the Conseil du patrimoine de Montréal moved in. The library itself opened to the public on 4 September 1917, five months after its official inauguration in the presence of French marshal Joseph Joffre.
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