THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT INFLUENCE PART I
Maisonneuve
Fire Hall, 1914
485, avenue
Létourneux, Montréal
MARIUS DUFRESNE
Because Marius Dufresne was running the then municipality of
Maisonneuve, he could allow himself such architectural amusement as this fire
hall à la Frank Lloyd Wright. Dufresne must have been impressed with the
novelty of Wright’s Unity Temple (1906) in Oak Park, Chicago. The fire hall is
basically the same design, except that the main auditorium has been doubled
with the halves joined together by the tower needed for drying the fire hoses.
The hall now houses the Théâtre Sans Fil, a troupe specializing in giant
puppets.
The only way to get a full shot of a long building like that on a
narrow street was to use my ultra wide angle lens. For this shot I tried to get to the higher available point
of view to minimize distortions. Still a lot of post production was required to
straighten up lines and removing modern artifacts, returning the building to
somehow its original look.
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