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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 14 Jul 1993, p. 9

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the agency‘s ability Tom Brockelbank, . ! LIBRARY | Peter Cudhea photos | â€" _ ith activities to es and details or July 21, at 2:30 July 13 at 10:30 eday, July 27 at 199 29 at 10 am. for feelings of accomâ€" warding to see the owâ€"up with volunâ€" erience would be approximately 15 FURNITURE there doing what will work with the Civic Holiâ€" years old are T IT ALL! 14 at 2: PL Branch; join â€" FREE LAYAWAY: UNIT Cause the City‘s Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Comâ€" i wbos: '°.‘ _,5}}45 ;*» frr (Continued from page 1) GUTTED BUILDING WAS CENTERPIECE OF DISTILLERY, WAS TO BECOME A HOTEL tillery building had on the city that grew up ht around it, but the plans to make the building a w hotel are now up in smoke, . ‘The historic mill and distillery building of . ad Joseph E. Seagram and Sons‘ Waterloo distillery is no more, but it will be remembered as a l Waterloo landmark of great historical and archiâ€" 3 tectural significance. ~, t While it isn‘t the oldest building on the Seaâ€" | â€" ‘__ _ gram lands (the administration building is 20 |" C sask~ yeniiusam'u'),itminthmflllnddidilhy M ME â€"=>+~ building that grain was made into Seagram‘s 1 > worldâ€"famous spirits for more than a century. us % AceotdingtofilesfromthebalArchitecmralComemfion MviswyCanmmee,dwfive-staeymmhfltbetween 1872 and 1878 and it housed the main production process of the dhflkyS:p:fiantnhahonsmdaddmnmwmm.dewthe building in 1947. Laurel Creek ran in the open just east of the building until it was covered in 1977. hmhmhfl\dhgmmdupmhflm-nd mmnmmmmzamm,.w cal effect on former Seagram employees. "IT‘m sure when a lot of our employees over in Waterloo who dedicated their whole lives to Seagram see that parâ€" ticular building vanishing in a fire ... there‘s sadness." ie («enainat ie oi ccpcmmatirnt upct EoS en e Et C mt n M qnpbyws," wees," said Arthur Hoch, who managed & the distillery in its last years t x "ltl}nyshadmanraabounlAndnhada 72; l Mmdxmwu,"hesaxi emer T. â€"Slies cal "Â¥ou felt good when you heard the distillery m S m tw running." on * Frlipe. * While other Seagram buildings were demolâ€" ished over the last few months to make way for redevelopment, the millmddififlleflyhuihimgwlswbem,amedabngmthfiwmlwr significant buildings. ‘The Seagram Lands Study completed by A.J. Diamond, Donald Schmitt and Company last year included a plan to make the mill mddim'lla'ymihlingpnnohnewhotel mmpatmnd,'fixehlildimimahsmhuohdmymram s suRd l o on o ue ud 40 old nodilichnen Mrcntd Intomore. â€" Daimtinet‘s m“.thsyunhemtedtopwideuf-nnaungmyof meeting rooms, a bar, dining rooms, and other support facilities to a hotel. The hotel rooms could be provided in a modern addition fi:mingnnm‘ivlhmdmheountomemm" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1993 â€" PAGE® house and a distill house. The grain which was stored in the elevator was cleaned and then cooked as mash. The mash was fermented, and the product, called beer, was distilled. The distilled product was then aged in barrels, blended and then bottled The mill and distillery building was an inteâ€" gral part of the Seagram distillery until proâ€" duction ceased in May 1991. "It meant a lot historically and to the

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