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Originally Posted by terrynorthend
I've been racking my brain on that one too. Ziobrop says the article is from 86. I worked at Delta Barrington in '89, (not sure when it was built) but it was definitely not new at that time. I also feel like I remember the CIBC building being there for quite a time too. That's all the corners of Duke and Barrington.
EDIT: I see that 1986 is the date of the DA link, not the Herald article. This fire was clearly earlier than this then. Google tells me the CIBC bank went up in 77, still not sure about the Delta. Seems likely it was in the 70's or early 80's though based on the style.
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The date on the photos of the burnt building was Dec. 19, 1974, and the date of the city council minutes (that fenwick posted) tendering for its demolition was Feb. 13, 1975, so I'd say the fires must have happened sometime in Nov-Dec. 1974.
Additionally, I searched for when Barrington Place/Delta Barrington were built and found that it opened in 1980 (from Crombie Reit's site:
http://www.crombie.ca/PDF/factsheet_6.pdf), therefore it must have been built around '78-'79. As you mentioned, the CIBC building was built in 1977 (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_o...erce_(Halifax)).
So the building that was burnt on the corner of Duke and Barrington in 1974 would have been on one of those sites.
It's hard to find pics online of those buildings, and the best I've been able to come up with so far has been this one from 1973 on the Spacing Atlantic site:
http://spacing.ca/atlantic/2009/12/0...scotia-square/
Here's one that just shows part of one of the buildings on May 27, 1969, from the Municipal Archives site.
search: Scotia Square Construction
I also ran across a little info on the construction of Barrington Place, but it's not much:
http://astint.on.ca/delta-hotel-halifax/
I'll post more if I find anything else.
Edit: Found another photo (from 1962) on the Municipal Archives, still not a great view of the buildings, though: