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Old Posted Apr 18, 2017, 9:17 PM
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Originally Posted by JET View Post
The Granville Street building were torn down, the facades on the West side of Granville were dismantled, the stones were numbered and then replaced when the 'new' building went up, a nice job for facadism.
Considering how run down the buildings were, preserving the facade while building a new structure behind it, was the only practical solution.

In this case I agree, it was a nice job for facadism.
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