DOORS OPEN Sunday, September 24, 2017, 1 – 4 pm Start your DOORS OPEN experience at any of these locations, in any order, for guided or self-guided tours. Please note that the locations will be offering limited guided tours at set times. MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS Constructed for the treatment of the chamber where City Council meets. water flowing from the wells in the The 3-tiered fountain in front of City In 2016 the City’s 9-1-1 and Public Queen Square area, this plant is a Hall, which was constructed in 1885, Safety Communications Centre complement to the existing William is crowned by Freddie “the little nude moved into the building from the L. Barrett Water Treatment Plant on dude”. The fountain, along with the City Police Station. This houses one of six Smythe Street that treats the water Hall clock, was a gift to the City from regional 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering from the neighbourhoods around Wilmot George Fenety, Mayor of Fredericton 1 Points. Scheduled tours will be offered Park. With a proud tradition of providing in 1877 and 1884-1888. The original throughout the day at 30-minute clean, safe drinking water to the citizens Freddie, which is older than the Statue North Side Station and Firefighter intervals. of Fredericton for over 150 years, of Liberty, is now on display inside City Training Complex & 911 Public visitors are welcome to tour this new Hall. Safety Communications Centre facility and learn about their drinking water supply and the rich history Tours are given of the Council 500 Two Nations Crossing surrounding its development. Chambers, including the City Hall Guided tours at 1, 2, 3 pm Clockworks (a prototype for London’s At a final cost of $10.2 million, this new Big Ben) and the History of Fredericton station and training complex is designed Tapestries designed by Gertrude Duffie to put Fredericton at the forefront of fire 2 and woven by Dr. Ivan Crowell as part of protection and ensure that we have the Fredericton’s Bicentennial celebrations best possible trained and equipped fire Fredericton E. John Bliss Water in 1985. department. Treatment Plant The North Side Fire Station includes 300 Waterloo Row apparatus bays, locker rooms, living Limited guided tours at 1, 2, 3 pm quarters, offices and training rooms, all (first-come, first-served) 3 situated on a 4.5-acre site that includes The E. John Bliss Water Treatment Plant a state-of-the-art firefighter training began providing water to the citizens Fredericton City Hall 397 Queen Street tower and related training pads. There of Fredericton in 2009. Although the 4 are burn rooms with flames fueled by interior contains modern state-of-the- Council Chamber tour, including propane and synthetic non-toxic smoke City Hall Clockworks and History of art technology, the exterior blends with Fredericton Playhouse with environmental protection in mind. the historic buildings in the St. Anne’s Fredericton Tapestries. The Station is also the new home for Point Heritage Preservation Area. Join us at 2 pm or 3 pm for tours in 686 Queen Street the Provincial Hazmat Trailers. During FRENCH and 2:30 pm or 3:30 pm for Guided tours from the lobby at 1, 2, 3, Located on the site of the former DOORS OPEN, the training tower will be tours in ENGLISH. 4 pm open for viewing and all the station’s Waterloo Row Esso gas station, the Built in 1876, Fredericton City Hall is Each tour lasts approximately 1 hour, equipment will be on display. The City’s project is a brownfield remediation the oldest city hall still in use in the 30 minutes. Tour numbers are limited Special Operations vehicle will also be success story. The contaminated Maritime Provinces. Fredericton City Hall (first-come, first-served) shown, as well as the Quint Truck (aerial land was cleaned up to an acceptable once included the magistrate’s office, Gain an insider’s view of behind-the- and pumper truck in one), the Tower standard and is now a shining example farmers’ market, opera house and scene workings of a professional Truck, and a pumper tanker. Visitors are of how land thought to be unacceptable even a jail. Today, the building includes performing arts centre. Ever wonder asked to follow the public parking signs for future use can be converted into a municipal offices and the council what that big white box is on top of the at the entrances. municipal landmark. Playhouse or how we make people fly civil engineering in 1854. The building and astronomy, and president of the on stage? Want to see where famous was designated a national historic civil University of from 1861 artists like Leonard Cohen, Buffy Ste. engineering site by the Canadian Society to 1885. Schooled in the traditions of the Marie, and Bruce Coburn hang out? of Civil Engineers. In the centre of the Scottish universities, he equipped the Want to learn more about our building’s building is the Great Hall which contains observatory with the best instruments history and present day operations? portraits of past heads of the university of the day. In collaboration with Harvard Take one of our guided tours that include and two stained glass windows, one Observatory he determined the longitude front of house, back stage, catwalks, depicting the Loyalists’ petition for of Fredericton and other places in New and conclude with an on-stage technical the college’s founding and the other Brunswick, and corrected errors in the 8 demonstration of lighting and sound. portraying Sir Howard Douglas. international boundary. Provincial Archives Photography is allowed. Children under The Edwin Jacob Chapel located off Now a museum, it contains many of 12 must be accompanied by a parent/ the Great Hall contains portraits of the original instruments, including a 7 23 Dineen Drive chaperone. No charge. Please note the three ordained Anglican ministers ½-foot mahogany and brass achromatic The Provincial Archives, located here that some areas of the tour are not associated with the university, the telescope, transit telescopes, as well as since 1967, collects and preserves wheelchair accessible. However, we are original pews carved up by generations memorabilia. documents relating to all aspects of the history of New Brunswick, including offering a special accessible tour at of students, and plaques honouring 2 pm. two UNB graduates, Bliss Carman its people and its institutions, and to make historical records available for and Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, both of whom made significant contributions public research. Its records offer a UNIVERSITY OF to Canadian letters. Also inside the multifaceted view of the province and its Chapel is a set of colourful stained glass people from Acadian and pre-Loyalists NEW BRUNSWICK CAMPUS windows designed by Molly Lamb Bobak periods to the present. and crafted by Ned Bowes and Hugh The building itself was once UNB’s MacKinnon of Shades of Light. Library from 1921 to 1967 with the The window depicts graduates and opening of the Harriet Irving Library. This professors in 3,500 individual pieces of 7 older library was renovated with a new glass. addition in 1951 which was financed Memorial Hall by Lord Beaverbrook. Named the Bonar Law-Bennett Building, the library was 9 Bailey Drive named in honour of Andrew Bonar Law, 5 Memorial Hall was the fifth university a New Brunswicker who was the only building constructed on campus. It is non-British-born person to become Sir Howard Douglas Hall dedicated to the alumni who served in Prime Minister of Great Britain, and who, 3 Bailey Drive the Great War. A plaque commemorates along with Richard B. Bennett, was the Sir Howard Douglas Hall, known for 6 the 35 who lost their lives—a number only New Brunswicker to become Prime many years as the Old Arts Building, equivalent in size to a graduating class Minister of . The Bonar Law- was constructed as King’s College Brydone Jack Observatory in those days. Chemistry and chemical Bennett Building and the new repository engineering departments were once now comprise the Richard Bennett during 1826-29 through the efforts of First Astronomical Observatory in located in the building as well as a Hatfield Archives Complex. the province’s Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Canada dining hall. Convocations were held in Howard Douglas. 5 Bailey Drive The library’s Beaux Arts, red brick the auditorium, which was renovated style was considered unusual in its Officially opened on January 1, 1829, it The William Brydone Jack Observatory in 1970 and is used for live theatre, is the oldest university building still in day. Its architecture is still of great is the oldest astronomical observatory concerts, and a multitude of other interest today, with its modified Doric use on an English-language campus in in Canada. Constructed of wood, it has purposes. Memorial Hall is currently Canada. columns, its six-over-six and modified an octagonal tower especially designed home to the UNB Art Centre and the Palladian windows. Just below the It provided accommodation for the to house its equatorial telescope. It was Centre for Musical Arts. building’s front cornice is the Latin faculty and resident students as well built in 1851 at the initiation of William motto Ne Derelinquas me, Domine as a chapel, classrooms and a library. Brydone Jack (1819-1886), professor which translates as “Forsake me not It housed Canada’s first lectures in of mathematics, natural philosophy utterly, O Lord”—perhaps the prayer of students entering the library. The faculty of Leadership Studies known as HERITAGE CHURCHES Wilmot United original Beaverbrook Wing of the Library Renaissance College. With its ornately Church (a reading room) was designed with trimmed veranda, window bays, and St. Anne’s Chapel Corner of King and bird’s-eye maple and fiddlehead-design coach-house this was first a private of Ease Carleton Streets wrought iron railings. Tours feature the residence and then sold to the Bank “A place of worship Wilmot, originally storage vault, microfilm cold storage of Montreal as a home for its bank with free seats” the Fredericton and demonstrations in the conservation managers. It served this function from Methodist Church lab. Historic photos and an exhibit will 1900 to 1948 when Lord Beaverbrook 245 Westmorland also be on display. Street (constructed 1851- purchased the property and bequeathed 1852), is the last of the large frame When Bishop John it to the University of New Brunswick churches that dominated the city skyline Medley came from Alumnae Society to provide a residence throughout the 19th century. It was England in 1845, he brought architect Frank for female students. It was opened in designed by Matthew Stead, an English- Wills with him. He set this young man to the fall of 1949 as a twenty-one-bed trained architect, and is an example of work to design a church that would, in the facility and was named the Maggie Jean the style known as “Carpenter Gothic.” Bishop’s words, ‘provide a place of worship Chestnut Residence in honor of the The construction crew erecting the late daughter of Mrs. H. G. Chestnut. with free seats for the poor and coloured 9 people of the parish’ who lived on the building was comprised of local ships’ Maggie Jean was a graduate of the carpenters whose work on the wooden Class of 1927 and her mother was the outskirts of Fredericton. Consecrated on March 18, 1847, St. Anne’s Chapel of Ease vaulting echoes that on the bows of McCord Hall/Ice House first president of the Alumnae Society wooden ships. 7 Bailey Drive in 1911. became Canada’s first free church. In 1853 St. Anne’s Chapel of Ease was renamed The spire ascended 198 feet and was McCord Hall (1851) is named after David In the 1950s an extension was added Christ Church Parish Church until 1962. topped by a 7-foot upward pointing hand McCord, a writer and Harvard University to the main house and the entire carved in wood by Edward Charters. It Bishop Medley believed that Gothic administrator, whose generosity structure became a co-ed residence. is believed that Wilmot was the first architecture and Christianity were made possible its restoration (1963) The residence operated until the late church in North America to have had inseparable, and that the chapel’s 1990s when the facility was closed due a symbolic hand on its steeple. The from university ice house to student pointed-arch design and stonework were to concerns about antiquated electrical study area, thus saving the building synonymous with morality. The grey spire was removed in 1974 because of for posterity. This has been a long- and fire prevention systems. Maggie sandstone on the Chapel’s exterior, the structural weakening, and the hand (a time meeting space for the writing Jean Chestnut sat empty for two years hard stone buttresses, and the internal Fredericton Heritage Icon) is now on community. Many renowned local until UNB established Renaissance trim came from New Brunswick, as did the display in the Sanctuary. Other features writers were part of a writing group College and selected the facility for its butternut that was used for most of the inside the church include stained glass called the ‘Tuesday Night Group’, also new and innovative program. Thanks to interior woodwork. Symbolic of the Trinity, windows, including one created by known as ‘The Ice House Gang,’ that donations from alumni, businesses and the number three appears frequently the William Morris Studio, pews with met here regularly. Hundreds of writers people in the surrounding neighborhood throughout the Chapel. From almost 20 doors, a 1951 Casavant pipe organ, and have read their work here. extensive work was done to restore metres (64 feet) in the air, amid the stately the interior décor designed by noted the building and Maggie Jean started a elms, three bells have been calling people Canadian artist, the late Alex Colville. new phase in its history as home for the to worship for over a century and a half. college and an off-campus residence for The Withechapel Bell Foundry in London, St. Paul’s UNB students. England, cast three bells, the largest United Church The richly detailed and original wood- weighing 532 pounds. National Historic Site paneled interiors with inlaid floor tiles, The low stone wall that surrounds the pocket doors, wooden blinds, etched chapel is interrupted by a lych-gate. The 400 George Street 10 glass windows and hand-carved wood word ‘lych’ comes from an old English (corner of George fireplaces and staircase in the main word meaning ‘corpse’. These roofed and York Streets) Maggie Jean Chestnut – UNB house provide an excellent atmosphere structures, which date back to sixteenth- Built in 1886, St. Renaissance College in which to work and learn for the century England, were designed to protect Paul’s is a fine example of High Victorian faculty and students of the college. the coffin from inclement weather during 811 Charlotte Street Gothic Revival architecture, fashionable Visitors are welcome and the tour funeral services. This particular gate is in Canada during the second half of Built in 1895 this stately Queen Ann guides are happy to share stories about believed to be one of only two such gates the 19th century. The style is marked Revival house is now the home of UNB’s the building and the leadership program. remaining in North America. by a bold and vigorous approach to design, which freely interprets St. Peter’s Anglican quarried in New Brunswick, it boasts a building was home to 52 practicing earlier Gothic precedents. Typical Church beautiful tracery window over the main doctors and had outgrown its capacity stylistic features in this former 2365 Woodstock Road entrance. The Gothic decoration of the as a medical clinic. In 1983 the Presbyterian Church are the soaring semicircular sanctuary and balcony is building was sold to Ross Ventures Ltd. corner tower, intersecting roof Nestled among the bathed in the glow of several stained- Following renovations, the building was ridges and richly varied details, towering pseudo-Achaia glass windows. re-opened as the Rookwood Centre including the rusticated and trees along the banks providing office space to a variety of polychromed stonework. The rose of the St. John River professional businesses and three radio window, derived from French Gothic, on the outskirts of MEDIA stations. indicates a new openness toward Fredericton lies a little Bell Media non-English designs at this time. know gem: St. Peter’s Anglican Church. Built Rogers tv by the descendants of Loyalist slaves in 1837, Radio Station 377 York Street St. St. Peter’s has served as a beacon of Faith Rookwood Centre Dunstan’s and hope to the local community for over 179 206 Rookwood Rogers tv has Catholic years. It is thought to be the oldest church Avenue been providing coverage of Church building of the greater Fredericton area which RingTour a working community 120 Regent has been in continuous use since erected in radio station and see how voices events, interactive studio shows, and Street the first year of Queen Victoria’s reign. St. get to the airwaves and where CTV Peter’s Georgian architecture stands amidst reporters prepare their TV stories. locally produced programming for over The earliest the graves of the famous and not so famous Rookwood Centre, formerly known as 45 years. Topics include everything history of St. former worshippers. Unique for its relation with the Rookwood Medical Building, houses from sports, politics, music, and Dunstan’s church starts in 1827 the local black population who were members three radio stations:Fulton Fredericton’s more. Volunteers from all walks of life Canada with the arrival of Father Michael as well as builders, St. Peter’s graveyard is Country StationBrookside 1260 AM KHJ, 106.9 cover all aspects of the process from McSweeney as the first resident the only local instance of intermixed black and Capital FM, and 105.3 The Fox. producing or hosting their own show to priest. On June 11, 1843, Father operating the technical equipment. white burials dating from the 19th century. Maple William Dollard was consecrated as Opened in 1962, the building originally The cemetery is also the final resting place provided office space for 30 doctors See the broadcast television studio, the new bishop, and was given an of Captain Charles Rainsford, the War of 1812 learn how television programming oil painting of the Crucifixion. This ranging from general practitioners to hero of the 104th Regiment of Foot. Rainsford’s Main works, have hands-onUnion access to the painting, which can still be seen dentists. It was co-founded by Dr. G actions saved 200 of his fellow soldiers from Everett Chalmers, Dr. J. Gilbert Turner equipment, and meet 1the05 behind-the- in the present-day church, hung Gibson starvation and exposure during their famous and Dr. W. Ross Wright. By 1982, the scenes volunteers. Tours start every over the main altar. During Bishop overland march to Kingston in the winter of half hour with the last tour at 3:30 pm. Dollard’s stay, the congregation 1813. increased in numbers due to the Two Nations Crossing Ring 1 Greenwood oint arrival of Irish immigrant families, P Brunswick Street 3 victims of the Irish Potato famine of NORTH / NORD Th atters St. Mary’s e W Baptist Church Queen Gr 1848. 12 4 ee King n oint Bypass Corner of York and 14 P Fulton BrunswickCanada The existing church was Brunswick Streets Cliffe Riverside Brookside oodstock 16 George W consecrated on August 15, 1965. 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