Windsor Hotel on Dominion Square, ca. 1878
Alexander Henderson, 1831-1913
MP-0000.1452.22, Notman Photographic Archives
©McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montréal

The original building of the Windsor Hotel was built in 1878. The hotel was established along the entire block of René-Lévesque (then Dorchester) Boulevard and Cypress Street, between Stanley and Peel (then Windsor) streets, where today is located the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce office tower.