From the link posted earlier:
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Original plans to build the block-square, five-storey hotel and shopping mall without disturbing the Granville Street west facade had to be abandoned when the walls were determined to be unstable.
Halifax Developments Limited resolved to fulfill its commitment to retain the original appearance of this block of Granville Street. Services of an artisan mason were contracted.
The stones from the front of each building were removed individually, numbered, and carefully stored. The result of this care was to make this block of Granville Street once more the gem of the provincial capital’s architecture.
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http://astint.on.ca/delta-hotel-halifax/
This was also covered in Stephen Archibald's most excellent blog "Noticed In Nova Scotia":
http://halifaxbloggers.ca/noticedinn...future-passed/
It's interesting to note that his pic from 1977 shows that The Trading Post had moved from the corner of Duke and Barrington (torn down to build Scotia Square) to Duke and Granville, which was then torn down and 'facaded' (if that's a word...) to build Barrington Place.
