"The George Stephen house in Montreal is one of the most sumptuous mansions to have been built in what is variously called the Italianate or the Renaissance Revival style - a domestic equivalent of the Victorian Italianate commercial buildings of the time. The house was built in 1882-4 for George Stephen (later the first Baron Mount Stephen), president of the Bank of Montreal and a principal in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway - on Drummond Street, in the lower portion of Montreal's '(Golden) Square Mile', where the city's English-speaking power élite built their residences." From Harold Kalman, A History of Canadian Architecture