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Lady Meredith House
Lady Meredith House is located at 1110 Pine Avenue West at the corner of Peel Street, in what is today known as the Golden Square Mile, Montreal, Quebec. It is currently owned by McGill University. The house was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada November 16, 1990.〔 Lady Meredith House is situated at an altitude of 129 m.〔(Lady Meredith House Altitude and Location )〕
==History==
The land on which the house stands was originally part of the estate of Simon McTavish in the Golden Square Mile. In 1860, his heirs subdivided the land and sold it off in several large plots. The shipowner and financier, Andrew Allan, purchased one these plots just south of the fourteen acre plot purchased by his brother, Sir Hugh Allan, on which ''Ravenscrag'' was completed in 1863. Using the same architects as his brother, Andrew Allan built ''Iononteh'', a greystone mansion completed in 1865 that dominated Upper Peel Street, but which has since been demolished.
In 1888, Andrew Allan gave a parcel of his land to his youngest daughter, Isabella Brenda Allan (1867–1959), on the occasion of her marriage to Sir Vincent Meredith, who would become the first Canadian-born President of the Bank of Montreal and in 1916 was created the 1st Baronet of Montreal.〔The architecture of Edward & W.S. Maxwell - Edward Maxwell, William Sutherland Maxwell, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1991〕 Meredith's brother, Charles, lived in the house immediately to the west of his home and their cousin, Frederick Meredith, lived only a few houses further down from them, also on Pine Avenue.
After their marriage, the Merediths lived on Sherbrooke Street in the house next door to the Van Horne Mansion.〔 In 1894, they commissioned the architects Edward & William Sutherland Maxwell to build them a house on the land gifted to them by Mrs Meredith's father on Pine Avenue at the corner of Upper Peel Street. Their home, that they named ''Ardvarna'', was completed in 1897.〔(McGill Centre for Architecture )〕 In 1941, Lady Meredith gave the house and its land to the Royal Victoria Hospital for use as a nurses residence. McGill University acquired the house in 1975, although it was shared with the hospital for several years afterward. In 1990, the ''McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Law'' moved into the residence.〔 Following an attempted arson on January 7 1990, the house was thoroughly renovated by architects Gersovitz, Becker, and Moss.〔
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