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Old Posted Feb 27, 2012, 7:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Andy6 View Post
They are all around 100 years old, I believe. The Norlyn Building was one of the buildings that was damaged in the Time Building fire in 1954. It used to be taller. The MTS Exhibition Centre, which is really the Clarendon Hotel, was built around 1920, replacing the first and much bigger Clarendon Hotel that was built in the early 1880s. I don't know anything about the Wild Planet building.
What happened to the original Clarendon Hotel?

I've seen photos of it and always wondered why the A&B Sound building was so much shorter.

I'm guessing the previous hotel burnt down?
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