Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland
North Street Arcade
North Street Arcade in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
North Street Arcade is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The North Street Arcade is a 1930s Art Deco shopping arcade in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the only example of a shopping arcade from this decade in Northern Ireland, and is one of only a handful left in the whole of Ireland or the UK. A Grade B1 listed building, it has been derelict since a fire in 2004.
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Background
History
The site on which the North Street Arcade was built, situated between North Street and Donegall Street, was originally occupied by a number of small premises, of which the most significant was the Brookfield Linen Company warehouse, built 1869–1881. According to architectural writer Marcus Patton (1993), in the mid-19th century, North Street mainly consisted of "small businesses, shoemakers and publicans, grocers and haberdashers, leather and iron merchants."{{#tag:ref| cited in Construction was carried out by F. B. McKee & Co. between 1936 and 1938,{{#tag:ref| cited in The building was first valued by the government on the Second General Revaluation of Northern Ireland (1956–1972), by the…
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- Coordinates
- 54.6018, -5.9294
- Address
- North Street, Cathedral Quarter
- Established
- 1938
- Official site
- www.niwarmemorial.org
Sources
- wikidata: Q54870170 (CC0)
- wikipedia: North Street Arcade (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is North Street Arcade?
- North Street Arcade is in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
- When was North Street Arcade built?
- Built or established in 1938.
- Who owns North Street Arcade?
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