3D print the Château Frontenac
A free, printable model of the Château Frontenac and the lawns, paths, streets and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Château Frontenac
The Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, usually called the Château Frontenac, is a historic hotel in Old Quebec, Quebec City, Canada. It stands in the Upper Town of Old Quebec, on the south side of Place d'Armes, on a promontory that juts into the Saint Lawrence River. The Canadian Pacific Railway built it, the New York architect Bruce Price designed it in the Château style, and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts manages it. It is regarded as the world's most photographed hotel.
The hotel opened in 1893 and has 18 floors. Its height of 79.9 m (262 ft) is added to by a ground elevation of 54 m (177 ft). It ranks among the earliest of Canada's grand railway hotels. In 1981 it received the status of National Historic Site of Canada. It has been expanded three times, the last major expansion coming in 1993. An earlier building on the site, the Château Haldimand from the 1780s, was torn down in 1892 to clear the ground for the hotel.
Price planned a horseshoe-shaped hotel of four wings of unequal length joined at obtuse angles. The Château style shows in the asymmetrical profile, tall chimneys, ornate gables and dormers, heavy round and polygonal towers with turrets, and steeply pitched roofs, while the fortress-like central tower comes from medieval châteaux in France's Loire Valley. The base is mostly gray stone ashlar. After the tallest tower was added in 1924, the hotel was the tallest building in Quebec City until 1930.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 24 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 30 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 39 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Cone-topped corner turrets
- Pointed turrets sit at the corners of the wings and around the central tower. Print friendly adapts these small spires to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- Dormers on steep roofs
- Rows of small dormers and windows cover the steep roofs. A bigger print size keeps more of them, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep their edges crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Château Frontenac is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Château Frontenac takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Château Frontenac is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Château Frontenac STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Château Frontenac grows with the print: about 24 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
