Craigruie

The McIntyres named the house "Craigruie" for a place overlooking the picturesque Loch Voil in McIntyre's native Perthshire. The new house was built on the site of an 8-room stone farmhouse in which Simon McTavish had died in 1804 before seeing the completion of the legendary McTavish Mansion. McIntyre purchased the lot from Hugh McLennan and he continued to add to the estate so that it soon came to encompass a substantial plot of land between the top of Drummond and Peel Streets. It enjoyed an extensive frontage along Pine Avenue and Drummond Street with a connecting right-of-way to Peel Street - a private street on which he built two additional houses. Within the gardens and orchards were stables for ten horses and cottages for the coachman and head gardener.

On completion in January, 1892, the McIntyres left for Europe to buy the furniture and furnishings. Their house stood three stories high over a basement with a tower and a brilliant copper roof. It was faced with Miramichi (grey) sandstone, backed with brick, and lined with terra cotta for maximum insulation. The main entrance over the tower faces Pine Avenue and led into a vestibule 14-feet square before opening into a hall of 35-feet square. The principal reception rooms all came off the hall: the Dining Room that opened onto the conservatory lay directly ahead on the south side of the house overlooking the city, while off to either side were the Library and Drawing Room. The rooms were finished in richest Spanish mahogany, white mahogany, and satinwood while the walls and ceilings were described as, "very ornate". The masonry was the work of Peter Nicholson; plaster work was executed by John McLean; and, the woodwork was attributed to John Allan.

McIntyre moved in, but it was apparent that he was immediately uncomfortable here. In the same year it was finished he put it up for sale and Sir William C. Macdonald was rumored to be interested in buying either Craigruie or the Mount Stephen House. Macdonald ended up choosing neither and in 1893 Messrs. Henry Joseph & Co. wrote a letter to Mayor Desjardins offering to sell McIntyre's house to the city for $300,000 to serve as the official residence of the Governors-General in Montreal. The offer was left on the table but after McIntyre died here the following year his widow was happy to stay on.

Mrs McIntyre lived on here with her youngest daughter, Jean, until her death in 1911 when her eldest surviving son, John Malcolm McIntyre, made the house his home. From 1924, the house was leased to George Haysey, an upholsterer, and between 1926 and 1927 he shared the house with J.M. McIntyre. Having had the address of 317 Drummond Street, it became 3531 Drummond Street from 1928 and from the following year (1929, the year McIntyre died) it was leased to one Isaac Golding. Golding remained here until 1936 when the house was demolished. The land remained under the ownership of the McIntyres until 1947 when J.M McIntyre's surviving heirs (Mrs Archibald Hodgson, Mrs Lewis Reford, Mrs R.A. Snowball and Duncan McIntyre Hodgson) donated it to McGill University. 

The land became known as McIntyre Park and in 1966 the distinctive, circular McIntyre Medical Sciences Building was built in its place, and still stands today.