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Originally Posted by someone123
The old apartment buildings on the corner were something:
(The source for this is a video.)
Demolished unfortunately. The picture reminds me of the "Old Halifax" that has been disappearing over the past 20 years. Ramshackle but charming.
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Yes, I felt a loss when the Victoria Apartments building was torn down. Despite being rundown from lack of maintenance, it had a real presence and was an interesting window back in time to 'old Halifax'.
The link below has a lot of photos of the Victoria Apartments building and the Morris house as well:
http://www.halifaxhistory.ca/Hollis-...0Buildings.htm
The link to the Heritage Trust document containing the history of that building doesn't work on the web page above, but here is a direct link to the pdf. The story is on page 5:
https://www.htns.ca/pdf_Griffin/G0203-1.pdf