3605, Rue de la Montagne
This three-storey house was built in 1925 to Alice Graham. She was the daughter of the wealthy Baron Atholstan, Hugh Graham, owner of the Montreal Star. In 1925, she married Bernard Marsham Hallward and, as was the custom, took the name of her husband, Hallward. Her husband was at the Montreal Standard, a newspaper that appeared on Saturday and commenting on news of the week.
In 1929, renovations were made to the house, followed by a minor fire in 1944. An elevator was added later and other renovations were undertaken in 1972.
The Congregation of the Priestly Fraternity acquired it in 1951. Then it was the turn of McGill University in 1965 to appropriate. It now houses the McGill Graduates Society.
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