Lindsay Building
228 Notre Dame Avenue
Frank Lindsay, a stage coach driver, then businessman, built
this structure and, on its walls, emblazoned his name and
the date in terra cotta. The Lindsay Building offers the most
effusive use of terra cotta in the city. This is a trapezoidal
building due to the irregular dimensions of the property.
It is here where the original settlers' strip lots extending
from the Red and Assinibione Rivers converge. The architects
chose a steel frame with reinforced concrete slab construction
and faced it with a shining ivory terra cotta with dark green
accents. Much of the decoration is found on the top two floors.
Beneath the cornice, from the mouths of lions, hang coats
of arms. On the narrowest wall, at the second storey, are
maple leaves and emblems of Great Britain. Near the second
floor corners, garlands and fruit spill onto the first storey
ledges. Below five arched windows on the main floor, angel
twins flutter in profile.
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