Montreal City Hall was designed by Henri-Maurice Perrault and Alexander Cowper Hutchison, and Louis Parant directed the 1923 to 1926 reconstruction. The City Council of Montreal was the client. Work ran from 1872 to 1878 at a cost of $481,000. The infobox lists 1878 as the opening, but the text says the rebuilt building opened on February 15, 1926.
The article calls the style Second Empire, with Beaux-Arts elements in the reconstruction. The exterior walls are load-bearing masonry. Sources conflict on the interior, with the infobox citing reinforced steel and concrete and the text describing a self-supporting steel structure.
A fire gutted the interior on March 3, 1922. Charles de Gaulle gave his Vive le Québec libre speech from the balcony in 1967. It was designated a National Historic Site in 1984 and renovated from 2019 to 2024. It is the seat of Montreal's local government. The article gives no hours.
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