Newfoundland Hotel
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| Fairmont Newfoundland | |
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| Location | St. John's, Canada |
| Opening date | 1926 |
| Architect | George S. Burman |
| Management | Fairmont Hotels and Resorts |
| Owner | Fairmont Hotels and Resorts |
| No. of restaurants | 2 |
| No. of rooms | 301 |
| of which suites | 14 |
| No. of floors | 7 |
| Website | www.fairmont.com/newfoundland |
The Fairmont Newfoundland is a luxury hotel in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, managed by Fairmont Hotel and Resorts.
The original Newfoundland Hotel, an 8-storey Art Deco brick structure, was opened in 1925 in St. John's. The hotel was owned and and operated by the Newfoundland Hotel Facilities, Ltd. Ownership of the hotel was transferred to the Canadian National Railway hotel division in 1949 following Confederation.
From 1939 to 1949, the 6th floor served as home and studios for Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland. The current site was formerly Fort William, a British Army base in the 17th Century.
In the early 1960's the hotel was renamed Hotel Newfoundland due to CN's new policy of making names more bilingual.
Canadian National Hotels built the current hotel on an adjacent site as a replacement for the original Newfoundland Hotel. The building was named Hotel Newfoundland and is an 8-storey glass and concrete building designed by architect George S. Burman.
The hotel's ownership was transferred to Canadian Pacific Hotels in 1988 after that company acquired the Canadian National Hotels chain. With the Break up of Canadian Pacific Limited in 2001 CP Hotels was subsequently renamed to Fairmont Hotel and Resorts.
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