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Originally Posted by Jonovision
^^ Nice find! There was a later addition that had a taller building that ran up to Spring Garden too.
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I will echo Keith's comments in that my recollection of the corner of Queen and Spring Garden (current library site) is that it was occupied by a parking lot at least back into the late 1980s, when I was a student at TUNS.
Here's another pic of the Infirmary as I remember it along Queen Street - this was apparently taken sometime in the early 1960s:
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This is getting way off topic, but the library lot to which you are referring had previously been occupied by Bellevue House, pictured below:
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Gutted by fire in 1885:
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In 2011, before the build for the new library could be started, an archaeological excavation was done of the site, outlined in
this linked article. To bring it full circle, the article states that at this time it had been a parking lot for 46 years, which would bring it back to 1965, five years before the pic I had previously posted of the complex.
However, further information indicates that the parking lot could actually have been there as far back as 1955:
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Bellevue was gutted by fire in 1885 and reconstructed by 1887. During the reconstruction an addition was made to the front (Piers 1947: 30). During the early twentieth century, Bellevue was converted to an Officer’s quarters and offices. The portion of the property that contained Bellevue house was turned over to the City of Halifax as military surplus in 1948. That same year, the City sold the property to Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company. The property was expropriated by the Nova Scotia Technical College in 1955 and Bellevue was torn down and the property turned into a parking lot.
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As usual, an offhand comments leads me down yet another historical rabbit hole...
Sorry for the derail!