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Famous building in the city I live in.
Some buildings in University of waterloo.
I hope you can know more about waterloo.
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Marsland Centre
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Today, walking along Albert from the library toward Erb, you walk by the Marsland Centre parking lot and the Marsland Centre office tower. But for much of this century, this part of Albert was the civic heart of town.
Along with the market and the Carnegie library, this was the site of the city's fire station -- at what is now the southwest corner of Albert and Dupont. It was demolished in 1966.
At the northwest corner of Erb and Albert was the town hall, built in 1874 and the home of the town and city offices until they moved into Waterloo Square in 1961. The land was sold for $100,000 in 1969 to Stanley Marsland, who had been the owner of one of Waterloo's most successful industrial businesses, Marsland Engineering Ltd.
The old town hall was demolished in August 1969. Although it can look impressive in old photographs, the Waterloo Chronicle warned against too much nostalgia for a building with "a leaky roof, draughty corridors, damp basement and tired, faded appearance." The original 1874 date stone is on display in the lobby of the Marsland Centre.
Construction had begun on the 13-storey Marsland Centre even before the town hall was razed. Stanley Marsland said the building would be "a very fine prestige building ... something of great credit to the community ... a good looking building."
The building opened on May 14, 1971. The Marsland Centre is the city's most impressive multiple tenant office tower (that is, not including the Mutual and Manulife buildings), and is the home of many businesses in Waterloo. Original plans included a possible second tower, a 10-storey building, on the same site. It was never built. The 4-storey addition on the east side opened in 1993.
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The Seagram Lands
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The Seagram Museum closed on March 27, 1997. It was the final operational vestige of one of the most successful businesses ever founded in Waterloo. The Seagram plant, which evolved from a flour mill and distillery established in 1857, was shut down in 1992. Most of the buildings were demolished the following year -- and the museum itself narrowly escaped a fire that destroyed the building next to it in 1993. (For historical details on Joseph E. Seagram and his company, see the Waterloo Historical Outline.)
The museum opened in May 1984 and was constructed at a reported cost of $4.75 million. Here are some excerpts from an editorial in Waterloo Chronicle after the museum's opening ceremony:
With the unveiling of a plaque by Premier William Davis to the memory of Samuel Bronfman, The Seagram Museum became a showpiece no longer of the future, but of the present. And what a present it is.
Thursday, the doors swing open to the general public, and at the same time, so many more doors will open figuratively throughout the city, spinoffs from the enormous interest generated by The Seagram Museum.
City officials are supremely optimistic of the benefits the facility will provide, in terms of tourism, economic impact, and overall boost to the vitality of the Uptown core. Tourism folks are rubbing their hands with glee, merchants are ready to monitor trends, and the city as a whole opens its arms to welcome an entirely new experience to the profile of Waterloo.
Isn't it an exciting time? And rest assured, if the efforts that have gone in to making The Seagram Museum what it is today can be bottled and sold throughout the city, the sky's the limit in terms of what potential effect its presence here holds for us.
The museum's entrance was a renovated late 19th century rack warehouse from the Seagram plant, and the museum was recognized for the excellence of its architecture. The entrance, with the barrels in their racks, was one of the most striking interiors of any building in town.
Initial plans for a Cineplex Odeon Theatre to move into the building were abandoned. It became the home of Waterloo Maple in 1998 and the company has maintained the entrance.
The City of Waterloo purchased the museum and other Seagram properties for $4 million and was planning a $240 million redevelopment of this site and Waterloo Town Square until everyone sobered up and realized that the money to pay for it wasn't there. The plans were cancelled in the summer of 2001.
The Seagram Lofts condominiums occupy the two former barrelhouses, and there's almost five acres of land on the site waiting to be developed.
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