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Jean-Claude Leclerc / Roger Villemure: Évêques-de-Trois-Rivières Mausoleum, 1965

  • Québec, Canada, Show on map
  • #REL #North America
  • Funeral monument located in Trois-Rivières, Québec, in the Saint-Michel cemetery opened in the early 1920s. It includes a mausoleum of ten tombs and a funeral chapel was built according to the plans of the architects Jean-Claude Leclerc and Roger Villemure. It is one of the rare mausoleums built in Québec in the twentieth century and the only exterior mausoleum reserved for religious. As one of his most significant works, the mausoleum occupies a prominent place in Leclerc's production. It’s ascribed to Leclerc's Corbusian period, which began after he visited a few works by Le Corbusier and worked in André Wogenscky's studio.

  • Listed as a heritage building by the city of Trois-Rivières in 2007 and classified as a heritage building in 2009 by the Ministry of Culture and Communications. Renovated in 1996, as part of a renovation campaign at the Cathedral of the Assumption to replace the crypt with a community hall in the basement. Special thanks to Vincent Bussière-Lavallée.