Villa-Maria station

Coordinates: 45°28′46″N 73°37′11″W / 45.47944°N 73.61972°W / 45.47944; -73.61972
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For other uses, see Villa Maria.
For the Lima metro station, see Villa María station.
Villa-Maria
ARTM: A[1]
History
Opened7 September 1981
Passengers
2023[2][3]2,677,200 Increase 23.99%
Rank34 of 68
Services
Preceding station Montreal Metro Following station
Snowdon
toward Côte-Vertu
 Orange Line Vendôme
toward Montmorency
Station exterior
Turnstiles at Villa-Maria

Villa-Maria is a

Décarie Expressway
trench.

Overview

The station is a normal

Décarie Autoroute
.

Station improvements

In 2019, work began to make the station fully accessible at a cost of $24.6m.[5] The work included the installation of three elevators, station renovation works and the installation of new artwork.[6] The project was completed in November 2022, making Villa-Maria the 23rd accessible station in the Metro.[5]

Architecture and artwork

The station was designed by

André Léonard. The architect also designed mural sculptures for the station of large moulded dials in a variety of colours. Floor and wall tiling also make use of colours throughout the station.[7]

As part of work to make the station accessible, La correspondance des strates, by the artist Marianne Chevalier, was unveiled in September 2022.[5] Using colorful geometric & organic shapes cut of aluminium, the work contrasts with the 1980s sculptures designed by station architect André Léonard.[8]

Origin of name

Villa-Maria station takes its name from the nearby Villa Maria school, which in turn takes its name from the Latin House of Mary.

The surrounding lands were once owned by the Decarie family. The land was sold in 1795 to Sir James Monk. The Monk residence was built in 1804 in the central section of the present-day school. In 1844, the building was leased to the Crown as a residence for the

Governors-Generals of Canada. (Lord Metcalfe, Earl Cathcart, and Lord Elgin
resided on the Monklands.

The property became a country hotel for five years. In 1854, it was purchased by the nuns of Congregation of Notre Dame, who turned it into a private girls' school, which they named Villa Maria. The metro station was built at the foot of the Villa Maria property.

Connecting bus routes

Société de transport de Montréal
Route
17 Décarie
24 Sherbrooke
63 Girouard
66 The Boulevard
102 Somerled
103 Monkland
138 Notre Dame De Grâce
162 Westminster
371 Décarie

Nearby points of interest

References

  1. Metropolitan Regional Transportation Authority
    . 1 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  2. ^ Société de transport de Montréal (2024-02-16). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2023 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2024.021.
  3. ^ Société de transport de Montréal (2023-05-25). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2022 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2023.134.
  4. ^ "Villa-Maria Metro Station". Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
  5. ^ a b c "The STM announces the commissioning of elevators at Pie-IX and Villa-Maria stations". Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  6. ^ "Villa-Maria". Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  7. ^ "Villa-Maria (André Léonard)". Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  8. ^ "Villa-Maria (Marianne Chevalier)". Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 2022-12-12.

External links

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