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Originally Posted by someone123
Just a small one but I always liked this house in Halifax, Benjamin Wier House on Hollis. Just had some restoration work done:
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That's quite beautiful. When I lived in Halifax years ago, I must have walked by there many times, but have no memory of it because the city had so many that we took them for granted. Heritage there in those days was not celebrated much, and old buildings were regarded more as an impractical inconvenience, more of a burden than an asset. The city was full of badly maintained or badly renovated heritage buildings. I lived in a couple of turn of the century houses, but whatever character was left was mostly by accident or neglect. Now, I'll just add my photo of a Vancouver heritage house. Barclay Manor is from 1905, which in fact is only about 40 years newer than that Halifax house, but they feel much farther apart in time. I took the photo recently for the foggy ghostly effect. Barclay Manor was also restored; it used to have a large 1909 addition which was removed years ago.
(photo by me)
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