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the janion building in victoria, british columbia
From the Victoria Times Colonist:
The architect of the three-storey brick Janion building isn't known. Nor the reason for why it was called the Janion, although that family name was associated with a liquor merchant operating in the city shy of two decades between 1859 and 1874.
He left a son in Victoria who then died in San Francisco two years prior to the building's completion.
The Janion was built in 1891 in arguably the last economic heyday Victoria saw as the province's chief port and terminal of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, before Vancouver's rise to prominence.
Originally a hotel, after two years the building went on to become the business office for the E&N Railway, a warehouse for B.Wilson & Co. Storage, a cold storage for B.C. Cold Storage, Ice and Produce Company and the facility for Lake of the Woods Milling Company. But it has sat vacant at 1612 Store St. for the last 31 years.
and in b & w
the janion building in victoria, british columbia
From the Victoria Times Colonist:
The architect of the three-storey brick Janion building isn't known. Nor the reason for why it was called the Janion, although that family name was associated with a liquor merchant operating in the city shy of two decades between 1859 and 1874.
He left a son in Victoria who then died in San Francisco two years prior to the building's completion.
The Janion was built in 1891 in arguably the last economic heyday Victoria saw as the province's chief port and terminal of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, before Vancouver's rise to prominence.
Originally a hotel, after two years the building went on to become the business office for the E&N Railway, a warehouse for B.Wilson & Co. Storage, a cold storage for B.C. Cold Storage, Ice and Produce Company and the facility for Lake of the Woods Milling Company. But it has sat vacant at 1612 Store St. for the last 31 years.