The 5 storey Montreal City Hall (Hôtel de Ville) is the work of architects Henri-Maurice Perrault and Alexander Cowper Hutchison, built between 1872 and 1878. Its architecture is in the Second Empire style, also known as Napoléon III-style. The building was gutted by fire in March, 1922, but it was restored by taking as a model the city hall of the French city of Tours.