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MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS

a proud tradition of providing clean, safe Guided tours from the lobby at 1 pm, 2 pm, designed by Molly Lamb Bobak and crafted drinking water to the citizens of Fredericton 3pm, 4 pm. by Ned Bowes and Hugh MacKinnon of Shades of Light. for over 150 years, visitors are welcome to Each tour lasts approximately 1 hour, 30 tour this new facility and learn about their minutes. Tour numbers are limited (first- The window depicts graduates and drinking water supply and the rich history come, first-served). professors in 3,500 individual pieces of surrounding its development. glass. Gain an insider’s view of behind-the-scene 1 workings of a professional performing arts centre. Ever wonder what that big white box Brydone Jack is on top of the Playhouse or how we make Observatory Fredericton Convention Centre people fly on stage? Want to see where 670 Queen Street famous artists like Leonard Cohen, Buffy First Astronomical Guided Tours at 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm. Ste. Marie, and Bruce Coburn hang out? Observatory in Enter through the main doors on Queen Want to learn more about our building’s Street, and enjoy both art exhibits and behind- history and present day operations? Take 5 Bailey Dr. the-scenes tours! Offered hourly on the hour, 4 one of our guided tours that include front of The William Brydone experience a Chef-guided kitchen tour and house, back stage, catwalks, and conclude Jack Observatory learn the tricks of the trade for producing with an on-stage technical demonstration is the oldest astronomical observatory in delicious meals for up to 1200 guests, or join City Hall of lighting and sound. Canada. the Maintenance Supervisor for a sustainable 397 Queen Street Photography allowed. Children under Constructed of wood, it has an octagonal building management tour. Discover some Council Chamber tour, including City Hall 12 must be accompanied by a parent/ tower especially designed to house its ‘invisible’ initiatives FCC has undertaken Clockworks and History of Fredericton chaperone. No charge. Please note that equatorial telescope. to achieve LEED Silver Certification for Tapestries. Join us at 3pm or 3pm for tours some areas of the tour are not wheelchair excellence in green buildings practices and in FRENCH and 2:30pm or 3:30pm for tours accessible, however we are offering a It was built in 1851 at the initiation of William standards. in ENGLISH. special accessible tour starting at 2pm. Brydone Jack (1819-1886), professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and See a new permanent interpretive exhibit, Built in 1876, Fredericton City Hall is the astronomy, and president of the University “Communities of Fredericton”, throughout oldest City Hall still in use in the Maritime of from 1861 to 1885. the main floor. Enjoy impressive art exhibits Provinces. Fredericton City Hall once Schooled in the traditions of the Scottish from both Ingrid Mueller Art + Concepts and included the City Offices, Council Chamber, universities, he equipped the observatory Gallery 78, and peek into the meeting rooms magistrate’s office, jail, farmers’ market, with the best instruments of the day. In along the way. Staff will be on-hand to answer and an opera house. Today, the building collaboration with Harvard Observatory he questions during this self-guided experience. includes municipal offices and the Council determined the longitude of Fredericton The FCC is also home to three unique Chambers where City Council meets. 7 and other places in New Brunswick, sculptural art pieces. Moon Music 3 is on The 3-tiered fountain in front of City Hall, and corrected errors in the international the main floor, Wolastokuk is located on which was constructed in 1885, is crowned boundary. the 2nd floor, while Memoria Address is by Freddie “the little nude dude”. The Theatre New Brunswick Now a museum, it contains many of the installed outside on the sidewalk between the fountain, along with the City Hall clock, was 55 Whiting Road original instruments, including a 7 ½ foot Convention Centre and The Playhouse. a gift to the City from George Fenety, Mayor Guided Tours every half hour starting at 1 mahogany and brass achromatic telescope, of Fredericton in 1877 and 1884-1888. The pm, last tour at 3:30 pm. transit telescopes as well as memorabilia. original Freddie, which is older than the Statue of Liberty, is now on display inside Come and play at TNB! We’re throwing City Hall. open the doors on one of the industrial Memorial Hall park’s best kept secrets: the Open Space 9 Bailey Dr. Tours given of the Council Chambers, Theatre and the home of Theatre New Memorial Hall including the City Hall Clockworks (a Brunswick, one of Canada’s oldest regional was the fifth prototype for London’s Big Ben) and the theatre companies. Visit the newest theatre university building 2 History of Fredericton Tapestries designed in Atlantic Canada and take a guided tour constructed on by Gertrude Duffie and woven by Dr. Ivan through our wardrobe, production and props Crowell as part of Fredericton’s Bicentennial campus. York Street Fire Station departments to learn how theatre comes celebrations in 1985). to life. It is dedicated 520 York Street to the alumni

One of four stations in the city, this building who served in the Great War. A plaque was originally the home of the City’s Police UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK commemorates the 35 who lost their Department head quarters as well as the lives—a number equivalent in size to a fire station. Crews will be on hand to provide CAMPUS graduating class in those days. Chemistry tours of the rescue unit, Rescue Boat, and and chemical engineering departments the 75-foot Quint Truck. Lights and sirens were once located in the building as well as will also be on display. Visitors are asked a dining hall. Convocations were held in the to follow the public parking signs at the auditorium, which was renovated in 1970 entrances. and is used for live theatre, concerts, and a 5 multitude of other purposes. Memorial Hall is currently home to the UNB Art Centre and the Centre for Musical Arts. The Station on York 380 York Street This 1923 heritage property was once a Sir Howard Douglas Hall bustling train station that was a major 3 Bailey Drive 3 hub for transportation in the Maritimes. After service was discontinued in 1993, Sir Howard Douglas Hall, known for the structure fell into major disrepair. many years as the Old Arts Building, was Fredericton E. John Bliss Water Considered by many to be beyond saving, constructed as King’s College during 1826- Treatment Plant the community rallied around this historic 29 through the efforts of the province’s gem and in 2009, it was announced that the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Howard Douglas. 300 Waterloo Row building would be refurbished into a state- Officially opened on January 1, 1829, it is McCord Hall/Ice House Limited guided tours at 1, 2 & 3 pm of-the-art event space with an adjoining the oldest university building still in use on 7 Bailey Dr. (first-come, first-served). liquor store. Though the building has been an English-language campus in Canada. McCord Hall (1851) is named after David heavily renovated, it still carries with it the The E. John Bliss Water Treatment Plant McCord, a writer and Harvard University charm of its earlier years. It provided accommodation for the faculty began providing water to the citizens of and resident students as well as a chapel, administrator, whose generosity made Fredericton in 2009. Although the interior Come by and enjoy some refreshments classrooms and a library. It housed possible its restoration (1963) from contains modern state of the art technology, while you discover the history of this Canada’s first lectures in civil engineering university ice house to student study area the exterior blends with the historic buildings beloved structure. Building is wheel chair in 1854.The building was designated a and saved the building for posterity. in the Waterloo Row neighbourhood. Located accessible. Staff will be on site to answer national historic civil engineering site by This building has been a long-time meeting in the St. Anne’s Point Heritage Preservation questions and to share information about the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers. In space for the writing community. Many Area, the building was constructed to fit in Fredericton’s railway past. the centre of the building is the Great Hall renowned local writers were part of a with its surroundings. which contains portraits of past heads writing group called The Tuesday Night Located on the site of the former Waterloo ARTS of the university and two stained glass Group, also known as The Ice House Gang, Row Esso gas station, the project is a windows, one depicting the Loyalists’ who met here regularly. Hundreds of writers Brownfield remediation success story. petition for the college’s founding and the have read their work here. The contaminated land was cleaned up other portraying Sir Howard Douglas. to an acceptable standard and is now a The Edwin Jacob Chapel located off the Provincial shining example of how land thought to be Great Hall contains portraits of the three unacceptable for future use can be converted ordained Anglican ministers associated with Archives to a landmark for the municipality. the university, the original pews carved up 23 Dineen Drive Constructed for the treatment of the water 6 by generations of students, and plaques The Provincial flowing from the wells in the Queen Square honouring two UNB graduates, Bliss Archives, located area, this plant is a complement to the Carman and Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, both here since existing Smythe Street William L. Barrett Fredericton Playhouse of whom made significant contributions to 1967, collects Water Treatment Plant that treats the water Guided Tours Canadian letters. Also inside the Chapel is and preserves from the Wilmot Park neighbourhood. With 686 Queen Street a set of colourful stained glass windows documents relating to all aspects of the history of New consecrated by the Rt. Rev. Bishop John hand (a Fredericton Heritage Icon) is now black and white burials dating from the Brunswick including its people, institutions Medley on March 12, 1856. on display in the Sanctuary. Other features 19th century. The cemetery is also the final and government of New Brunswick and inside the church include stained glass resting place of Captain Charles Rainsford, Although the Church has been worshiping to make these historical records available windows including one created by the the War of 1812 hero of the 104th Regiment on Main Street for over 160 years, this area for public research. Its records offer a William Morris Studio, pews with doors, a of Foot. Rainsford’s actions saved 200 of his of Fredericton’s north side can trace its faith multifaceted view of the province and its 1951 Casavant pipe organ, and the interior fellow soldiers from starvation and exposure back much further than that, however. The people from Acadian and pre-Loyalists décor designed by noted Canadian artist, the during their famous overland march to King’s American Regiment first settled in periods to the present. late Alex Colville. Kingston in the winter of 1813. Nashwaaksis after the American Revolution The building itself was once UNB’s Library in 1783 bringing with them their religious until 1967 with the opening of the Harriet beliefs. One of their members, the Rev. St. Paul’s Brunswick Irving Library. It opened in 1921 and was Dr. Samuel Cooke, was Chaplain to His United Church Street Baptist renovated with a new addition in 1951, Majesty’s Guards and later became the first National Historic Church financed by Lord Beaverbrook. Named the rector of Fredericton. Site Bonar Law-Bennett Building, the library Corner of York and The little stone church with red doors was named in honour of Andrew Bonar 400 George St Brunswick Street is made of stone hauled from a quarry Law, a New Brunswicker who was the only (corner of George several miles away and butternut trees This Neo-Gothic non British-born person to become Prime and York Street) cut from along the St. John River. Original church was built in Minister of Great Britain, along with Richard church furnishings were made in the village Built in 1886, St. 1882 to replace a B. Bennett, the only New Brunswicker to carpenter shop. It was completed for a total Paul’s is a fine wooden structure become Prime Minister of Canada. The Bonar cost of about 400 pounds. example of High destroyed by fire. Law-Bennett Building and the new repository Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, It is built of purple-blue freestone quarried now comprise the Richard Bennett Hatfield An extension was built in 1957 and the fashionable in Canada during the second in New Brunswick and features a 60-foot Archives Complex. stone to match the original walls was half of the 19th century. The style is tower with a spire that extends a further found on site during the excavation for a The library’s Beaux Arts, red brick style was marked by a bold and vigorous approach eight feet, and a beautiful tracery window basement. considered unusual in its day. Its architecture to design, which freely interprets earlier over the main entrance. The Gothic is still of great interest today, with its Since 2010 a modern building across the Gothic precedents. Typical stylistic features decoration of the semicircular sanctuary modified Doric columns, its six over six and street has been used for Sunday worship in this former Presbyterian Church are the and balcony is bathed in the glow of several modified Palladian windows. Just below the as well as parish and community functions. soaring corner tower, intersecting roof stained-glass windows. ridges and richly varied details, including the building’s front cornice is the Latin motto Ne The stone church is still used for weddings, Derelinquas me, Domine. This is translated funerals and 8am worship on alternate rusticated and polychromed stonework. The as “Forsake me not utterly, O Lord”-- perhaps Sundays between May and November. rose window, derived from French Gothic, MEDIA the prayer of students entering the library. indicates a new openness toward non- English designs at this time. The original Beaverbrook Wing of the Library St. Anne’s Bell Media (a reading room) was designed with birds- Radio Station eye maple and fiddlehead-design wrought Chapel of Ease St. Dunstan’s Rookwood Centre iron railings. Tours feature the storage vault, – 120 Regent microfilm cold storage and demonstrations in 206 Rookwood “A place of Street the conservation lab. Historic photos and an worship with free Avenue exhibit will also be on display. seats” The earliest history Tour a working radio of St. Dunstan’s station and see how 245 Westmorland church starts in Maggie Jean Street voices get to the 1827 with the arrival airwaves and where Chestnut - When Bishop John Medley came from of Father Michael CTV reporters prepare their TV stories. UNB’s England in 1845, he brought architect Frank McSweeney as the Rookwood Centre, formerly known as the Renaissance Wills with him. He set this young man to first resident priest. work to design a church that would in the Rookwood Medical Building, houses three College On June 11th, 1843, Father William Dollard radio stations: Fredericton’s Country station Bishop’s words, ‘provide a place of worship was consecrated as the new bishop, and 811 Charlotte with free seats’ for the poor and coloured 1260 AM KHJ, 106.9 Capital FM and 105.3 was given an oil painting of the Crucifixion. The Fox. Street people of the parish who lived on the This painting, which can still be seen in the Built in 1895 this outskirts of Fredericton. Consecrated on present day church, hung over the main Opened in 1962, the building originally stately Queen Ann March 18, 1847, St. Anne’s Chapel of Ease altar. During Bishop Dollard’s stay, the provided office space for 30 doctors ranging Revival house is now the home of UNB’s became Canada’s first free church. In 1853 congregation increased in numbers due from general practitioners to dentists. It was faculty of Leadership Studies known as St. Anne’s Chapel of Ease was renamed to the arrival of Irish immigrant families, co-founded by Dr. G Everett Chalmers, Dr. Renaissance College. With its ornately Christ Church Parish Church until 1962. victims of the Irish Potato famine of 1848. J. Gilbert Turner and Dr. W. Ross Wright. By 1982 the building was home to 52 practicing trimmed verandah, window bays and coach- About the Building The existing church was consecrated on house this was first a private residence and doctors and had outgrown its capacity Bishop Medley believed that Gothic the 15th of August, 1965. It has a seating then sold to the Bank of Montreal as a home as a medical clinic. In 1983 the building architecture and Christianity were capacity for nearly 1000 people and a spire for its bank managers. It served this function was sold to Ross Ventures Ltd. Following inseparable, and that the chapel’s height of 92 feet, six inches from the ground from 1900 to 1948 when Lord Beaverbrook renovations the building was re-opened as pointed-arch design and stonework were to the foot of the 18 foot high superimposed purchased the property and bequeathed it to the Rookwood Centre providing office space synonymous with morality. The grey cross. An altar of white marble has been the University of New Brunswick Alumnae to a variety of professional businesses and sandstone on the Chapel exterior, the hard placed in the sanctuary. There are two side Society to provide a residence for female three radio stations. In 1983 the building stone buttresses, and the internal trim altars and two shrines. The baptistery is at students. It was opened in the fall of 1949 as was sold to Ross Ventures Ltd. Following the came from New Brunswick; as did the the front of the church and can be seen on a twenty-one bed facility and was named the renovations, the building was re-opened as butternut that was used for most of the the right hand side. Maggie Jean Chestnut Residence in honor the Rookwood Centre providing office space interior woodwork. Symbolic of the Trinity, of the late daughter of Mrs. H. G. Chestnut. to a variety of professional businesses and the number three appears frequently in the Maggie Jean was a graduate of the Class of St. Peter’s three radio stations. Chapel. From almost 20 metres (64 feet) 1927 and her mother was the first president in the air, amid the stately elms, three bells Anglican of the Alumnae Society in 1911. have been calling people to worship for over Church In the 1950s an extension was added to the a century and a half. The Withechapel Bell 2365 Woodstock main house and the entire structure became Foundry in London, England cast three bells, Road a co-ed residence. The residence operated the largest weighing 532 pounds. until the late 1990s when the facility was Nestled among the The Lych-gate closed due to concerns about antiquated towering pseudo- electrical and fire prevention systems. The low stone wall that surrounds the Achaia trees along Maggie Jean Chestnut sat empty for two chapel is interrupted by a lych-gate. The the banks of the St. years until UNB established Renaissance word ‘lych’ comes from an old English word John River on the College and selected the facility for its new meaning ‘corpse’. These roofed structures, outskirts of Fredericton lies a little know Rogers TV and innovative program. Thanks to donations which date back to sixteenth-century gem - St Peter’s Anglican Church. Built by 377 York Street the descendants of Loyalist slaves in 1837, from alumni, businesses and people in the England, were designed to protect the coffin Rogers TV has been providing coverage of surrounding neighborhood extensive work from inclement weather during funeral St. Peter’s has served as a beacon of Faith and hope to the local community for over community events, interactive studio shows was done to restore the building and Maggie services. This particular gate is believed to and locally produced programming for over Jean started a new phase in its history as be one of only two such gates remaining in 175 years. It is thought to be the oldest church building of the greater Fredericton 45 years. Topics include everything from home for the college and an off-campus North America. sports, politics, music and more. Volunteers residence for UNB students. area which has been in continuous use since erected in the first year of Queen from all walks of life cover all aspects of the The richly detailed and original wood-paneled Wilmot United Victoria’s reign. St. Peter’s Georgian process from producing or hosting their own interiors with inlaid floor tiles, pocket doors, Church architecture stands amidst the graves of show to operating the technical equipment. wooden blinds, etched glass windows and Corner of King the famous and not so famous former See the broadcast television studio, learn hand-carved wood fireplaces and staircase worshippers. Unique for its relation with the how television programming works, have in the main house provide an excellent and Carleton Street local black population who were members hands on access to the equipment, and meet atmosphere in which to work and learn as well as builders, St. Peter’s graveyard the behind the scenes volunteers. Tours start for the faculty and students of the college. Wilmot, originally is the only local instance of intermixed every half hour with the last tour at 3:30pm. Visitors are welcome and we are happy to the Fredericton share stories about the building and the Methodist Church leadership program. (constructed 1851-1852), is the last of the large frame HERITAGE CHURCHES churches that dominated the city skyline throughout the 19th century. It was designed by Matthew Stead, an English- St. John the trained architect, and is an example of the Evangelist style known as “carpenter gothic.” The Anglican Church construction crew erecting the building was comprised of local ships’ carpenters whose 70 Main Street work on the wooden vaulting echoes that (parking across the on the bows of wooden ships. street at 75 Main Street) The spire ascended 198ft.and was topped by a 7 foot upward-pointing hand carved Construction of St. in wood by Edward Charters. It is believed John The Evangelist Anglican Church began that Wilmot was the first church in North in 1853 (cornerstone laid July 18, 1853), America to have had a symbolic hand on making it one of the oldest churches in its steeple. The spire was removed in 1974 Fredericton. It was completed in 1855 and because of structural weakening, and the Are there any other buildings that you would like to see included in the tour? Email us : [email protected]