The Château Frontenac in Quebec City was designed by the New York architect Bruce Price for the Canadian Pacific Railway, with William Van Horne overseeing it. Toronto and Montreal businessmen with railway ties took over an earlier project after its financing failed. Groundbreaking was in May 1892, and the hotel opened on December 18, 1893.
The article calls the style Châteauesque, with steep roofs, turrets, ornate dormers and tall chimneys. A grey stone ashlar base carries steel framing clad in Glenboig brick. It has 18 floors and 610 rooms, 260 feet (80 m) high per the infobox and 262 feet (79.9 m) per the text. The central tower was added in 1924.
William Sutherland Maxwell led expansions in 1908 to 1909 and 1920 to 1924, the latter with Edward Maxwell. It became a National Historic Site in 1981 and is now the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, a hotel, after a renovation that rebuilt three-fifths of the rooms.
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