An Architectural Mishmash in Montreal Becomes a Long-Term Family Home

A couple turns a cramped Montreal quadruplex into a spacious and flexible family home on the very street where one of them grew up.

By the end of the aughts, Molly Alexander and Graeme Anthony were getting restless in the Victorian that they had owned since their 20s in Montreal’s lively Plateau neighborhood. Their son, Max, was five, and Alexander says she had grown "tired of having drunks lying on my stoop and yelling at three o’clock in the morning. I was like, ‘I’m over this.’"

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William Lamb
Will Lamb is a writer and editor based in Jersey City, New Jersey. He served as a senior editor at Dwell from 2013 to 2015.

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