The
Fairmont Château Laurier is a 660,000-square-foot
hotel with 429 guest rooms in
downtown Ottawa,
Ontario, located near the intersection of
Rideau Street and
Sussex Drive and designed in the French Gothic
Châteauesque style to complement the adjacent Parliament buildings. The hotel is above the Rideau Canal locks and overlooks the Ottawa River. The main dining room (now the Laurier Room) overlooks Major’s Hill Park. The reception rooms include the Wedgewood-blue Adam Room; the Laurier Room defined by Roman columns; the Empire-style ballroom and the Drawing Room featuring cream and gold plaster ornament. The hotel was designated a national historic site in 1980.