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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
St. John's doesn't have a lot of very attractive architecture as our grandest public buildings were destroyed in the great fires of 1846 and 1892.
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Partly true, although many of the grandest public buildings, the legislature, the government house, the Basilica, the restored cathedral, all survived. The athenaeum is an example of one of the grandest ones that did not.
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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
And last one for now...
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At the centre of it is the 1946 Salt Fish Plant. As far as fish plants go, it's exceptionally beautiful. The whole historic district of Port Union has been mostly restored from literal ruin just a couple decades ago (this building, for example, had giant holes in it all of the place).
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That's an interesting one no doubt, I have seen it in person, but real beauty is found in earlier industrial fisheries buildings from the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ryan Premises at Bonavista is the best example.