Chateau Frontenac

The Chateau Frontenac is a grand hotel atop Cap Diamant overlooking the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec City, Canada, opened in 1893 to a design by the American architect Bruce Price for the Canadian Pacific Railway, which built a chain of similar chateau-style hotels across Canada. Its steeply pitched copper roofs, dormer windows and round turrets, drawn from French Renaissance chateau architecture, gave the building and its later expansions their distinctive silhouette; a central tower addition completed in the 1920s brought the building to its present height of roughly 80 meters. It is frequently described as the most photographed hotel in the world and has hosted numerous heads of state, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during the Quebec Conferences of the Second World War.