Basically every old rowhouse in St. John's spent much of the 60s-early 80s looking like absolute shit with cheap, modern, wide siding and cabin windows. Luckily there was a huge push starting in the mid-80s to restore them to the local Southcott style. Most of them, though, are just houses so they're not impressive to share - it's just today they have much bigger windows with ornate trim and nicer-scale siding.
But holy shit, some of the wooden public buildings were also restored. This is one I honestly didn't even know about, even though I was alive for some of its shitty years.
So Victoria Hall (a fave of mine as it displays the tricolour flag) looks like this today:
And it used to look like this:
Typical St. John's before/after. But, unbeknownst to me, it spent a good chunk of the time in between every bit as destroyed as most of our rowhouses used to be: